Christopher Columbus: The Four Voyages By Laurence Bergreen

As part of an ever-developing endeavor to truly grasp Christopher Columbus, his character and his mission, it is crucial to find sources that lend an accurate portrayal and in-depth evaluation of his true disposition, his ambitious intentions, and the outcome of his success or failures in regards to those. To grasp the ensuing reverberations felt profoundly throughout the centuries due to his exploits, and the collateral damage caused thereby, one must first trace him back to his origins; and in so doing, follow him along through his quest for notoriety, power, wealth, and prestige. Columbus: the four voyages, by Laurence Bergreen, does all that and more. If it is at all possible to transport an individual to the year 1492, and experience life through the eyes of Columbus, his men, and even at times, the indigenous natives of the New World, this author has made it as nearly so as any man ever could. Interweaving first and secondhand accounts, personal journals, letters, logbooks, and other corroborating evidence, Bergreen creates an entirely factual and informative tale of the man best known for discovering the Americas; and adversely, destroying its native population and thriving ecosystem. The four voyages begins, interestingly enough,

Having engaged in a relentless and detailed examination of Christopher Columbus’ four voyages across the Atlantic, the reader can now undoubtedly claim to have ascertained a greater level of knowledge and appreciation than he before could have ever held. Although the reader is bereft of a happy or joyous ending, he can find solace in a better comprehension of past events, those men who characterized them, and the implied lessons for a future that will inevitably become a part of history itself. Columbus: the four voyages, by Laurence Bergreen, is a remarkable biography that provides all of that, and then