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A richly detailed biography of the world’s most famous explorer…
Christopher Columbus has become the archetypal figure of the sailor, the adventurer, and the explorer. But he was much more than that. His celebrated voyage in 1492 when he discovered the New World has overshadowed everything else about the man. He was a mystic, profoundly religious, and yet at the same time ambitious.
While dreaming of recapturing Jerusalem from the Moslems, he was also quite capable of driving a hard bargain with his employers as to the rights and privileges – and riches – that should accrue to himself if he succeeded in his mission of finding a way to the Indies by sailing due west across the Atlantic.
Ernle Bradford proves quite clearly that the old legend about Columbus insisting that the world was round while all the scholars said that it was flat is utterly untrue. The opposition to his idea of finding China and Japan by sailing due west was based on the completely accurate conception of the world being a great deal larger than he said it was. To the end of his days Columbus insisted he was in the Indies, even when it had become quite clear to many of his contemporaries that they were in fact in some area of the world which had hitherto been completely unknown to Europeans. As a coloniser he possessed limited administrative gifts but as a sailor and as a pilot he was without a peer. In this superb book, Ernle Bradford reveals Columbus in all his complexity.
Ernle Bradford
Ernle Bradford was born in 1922 and died in 1986. He was a noted British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics. Bradford was an enthusiastic sailor himself and spent almost thirty years sailing the Mediterranean, where many of his books are set. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, finishing as the first lieutenant of a destroyer. Bradford lived in Malta for a number of years. He did occasional broadcast work for the BBC, was a magazine editor, and wrote many books, including Hannibal, Paul the Traveller, Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power, Christopher Columbus, and The Mighty Hood.
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