Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth

by Hans Koning

Overview

"The book is an idea that has finally found its time."
—Publisher's Weekly
"I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years."
—Kurt Vonnegut

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853458258
Publisher:	Monthly Review Press
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	141
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)
Age Range:	4 - 17 Years

Editorial Reviews

Koning exposes Columbus's less-than-noble side: his greedy, gold-motivated explorations, his New World ``discovery'' which allowed the plunder and murder of America's native peoples, and his return from his fourth voyage as an old man in disgrace. (June)no PW review

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