Anjestia Gesang 16611033 reading book "Christopher Colombus my first story by Marion dane beur"

I picked up this book in an airport bookstore and quite enjoyed it. As you may have surmised from the title, it traces the life of Christopher Columbus through his four voyages. Of course most people are familiar with his first voyage and his discovery of the NewWorld, but few have read of his subsequent travels. The publisher says it nicely: “These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus’suncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the lattervoyages illustrate the tragic costs–political, moral, and economic.”