Columbus: For Gold, God and Glory

by John Dyson

A fascinating text, full-color photographs, maps, and archival paintings create an in-depth look at the famed explorer and unravel many of the five-hundred-year-old mysteries of his historic voyages.

Genres: History

224 pages, Hardcover

First published June 21, 1993

Reviews

[hh · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting photo-heavy documentation of a 1990 voyage in a replica of the Nina. the authors build a very convincing argument for the falsification of columbus's journals in order to keep his route to the indies a secret. they also pretty convincingly posit that columbus was following a map made by an earlier (likely deceased) survivor of a trans-atlantic voyage. i'd love to see other scholarship take this argument up (there may be, i'll need to poke around), it's interesting and worth investigation. it's certainly neat that someone got a mariner to comb over the evidence.