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:	9781583673829
Publisher:	Monthly Review Press
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	141
File size:	4 MB

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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