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Columbus

The Four Voyages

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Columbus

By: Laurence Bergreen
Narrated by: Tim Jerome
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Unabridged, 15 hours

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A mesmerizing, new account of the great explorer from the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Marco Polo.

Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Expeditions & Discoveries Historical Politicians Politics & Activism World Sailing China Latin American Biography Middle Ages Africa

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Critic reviews

"Laurence Bergreen's Columbus was brillliant, audacious, volatile, paranoid and ruthless. What emerges in this biography, a worthy addition to the literature on Columbus is a surprising and revealing portrait of a man who might have been the title charcater in a Shakespearan tradegy."
The New York Times

"Laurence Bergreen's ambitious new biography, Columbus: The Four Voyages [is] a spellbinding epic that's simultaneiously a profoundly private portrait of the most complex, compelling, controversial creature ever to board a boat. This scrupulously researched, unbiased account of four death-defying journeys to The New World reveals the Admiral's paradoxical personality."
USA Today

"A compelling new book [that] details the explorer's trips to the New World, including three you haven't heard about."
Salon

"Once you have read this superb acount of Columbus' four voyages, you will never be content with the cliche about the Italian-born explorer's sailing the ocean blue in 1492. Author of many prize-winning popular history books on topics as diverse as Marco Polo and Al Capone. Laurence Bergreen is a New York-based scholar whose portrayal of the life and times of Christopher Columbus is a tour de force."
Winnipeg Free Press

"Laurence Bergreen's new book, refreshingly, is fluid in style in its style and comprehensive in its research. Richly illustrated and enhanced with maps that are as legible as they are relevant. Columbus: The Four Voyages is complex in its themes, intriguing in its substance and sparkling with suprises."
The Washington Times

"In this scrupulously fair and often thrilling account of his four vorages to the "New World," Bergreen reveals Columbus as brilliant, brave, adventurous, and deeply flawed . . . A superb reexamination of the character and career of a still controversial historical agent." — Booklist
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I wanted to listen to this book as I'm am a keen traveler and the name Colombus pops up alot. very interesting and easy to follow. It's interesting to see how life was back then and also the history behind the legendary name.

Fantastic history lesson

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This is a very detailed look at the four voyages.

I feel it is a very solid and impartial examination that manages to frame and give insight on the motivations at play on both personal and state levels.

Great detail and informative.

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