The Last Voyage of Columbus

This account of the explorer’s disgrace, imprisonment, and desperate, final expedition “breathes life into that futile, unquenchable, 500-year-old dream” ( San Francisco Chronicle ). #1 New York Times –Bestselling Author The year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New Wor