The Last Voyage of Columbus - by Martin Dugard (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Columbus' fourth voyage is a saga of shipwreck, mutiny, discovery, and political treachery, yet his quest to find a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being a liar, a secret Jew, and a foreigner who sought to steal the riches of the New World for himself. <p/> The tall, freckled explorer with the aquiline nose, whose flaming red hair long ago turned gray, passes his days in prayer and rumination, trying to ignore the waterfront gallows that are all too visible from his cell. And he plots for one great escape, one last voyage to the ends of the earth, one final chance to prove himself. What follows is one of history's most epic -- and forgotten -- adventures. Columbus himself would later claim that his fourth voyage was his greatest. It was without doubt his most treacherous. Of the four ships he led into the unknown, none returned. Columbus would face the worst storms a European explorer had ever encountered. He would battle to survive amid mutiny, war, and a shipwreck that left him stranded on a desert isle for almost a year. <p/> On his tail were his enemies, sent from Europe to track him down. In front of him: the unknown. Martin Dugard's thrilling account of this final voyage brings Columbus to life as never before-adventurer, businessman, father, lover, tyrant, and hero.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Martin Dugard</b> is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of such nonfiction titles as <i>Chasing Lance</i>, <i>The Last Voyage of Columbus</i>, <i>Farther Than Any Man</i>, <i>Knockdown</i>, and <i>Into Africa</i>. He has written for <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Outside</i>, <i>Sports Illustrated</i>, and <i>GQ</i>. Dugard lives in Orange County, California, with his wife and three sons.
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