Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

SPECIAL 500TH ANNIVERSARY REPRINT EDITION. 1991 Longmeadow Press hardcover, Justin Winsor (Narrative and critical history of America). This classic biography should be mandatory listening for all academicians. Winsor, a historian, poet, literary critic, and fiction writer, retraces every important aspect of Columbus' fascinating life, from his family origins to his beliefs and convictions. Columbus emerges as a living, breathing human being with passions and ideas: a man possessing intellect and imagination enough to believe that the earth was round, not flat. Winsor's opus represents an honest search for the truth. - Amazon