Columbus: his enterprise : exploding the myth
Biographies, Histoire, Aventuriers et explorateurs (biographies), Histoire (biographies)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Koning debunks the legend of Columbus as a brave sailor who set out to find a new route to Asia and instead discovered America. The author looks at the explorer's life, from his childhood in Genoa through his four voyages,… and describes how Columbus's desire to find a new route to Asia and to bring back gold to Spain led to the plundering of Native Americans