the last voyage of columbus by martin dugard

Of the four ships he led into the unknown, none returned. It was without doubt his most treacherous.

Columbus himself would later claim that his fourth voyage was his greatest. What follows is one of history's most epic-and forgotten-adventures. And he plots for one great escape, one last voyage to the ends of the earth, one final chance to prove himself.

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. 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. 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. Martin Dugard's thrilling account of this final voyage brings Columbus to life as never before-adventurer, businessman, father, lover, tyrant, and hero.The Year is 1500. On his tail were his enemies, sent from Europe to track him down. He would battle to survive amid mutiny, war, and a shipwreck that left him stranded on a desert isle for almost a year. Columbus would face the worst storms a European explorer had ever encountered. What follows is one of history's most epic - and forgotten - adventures.

The last voyage of columbus by martin dugard