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A compelling overview of American history through the eyes and experiences of its women, workers, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working poor.

Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept.

An engaging introduction to the life, voyages, and lasting impact of Christopher Columbus, tailored for young readers exploring the age of discovery.

David E. Stannard examines the 400‑year assault on Native peoples of North and South America, arguing that European colonization and later American expansion constituted the world’s largest genocide.

An account of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus.

An epic historical adventure awaits. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny 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 latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs -- political, moral, and economic. In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. - Publisher.