Last Voyage of Columbus : Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery

by Dugard, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780316828833
• ISBN10: 0316828831
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Samuel Eliot Morison put it, "a story of adventure which imagination could hardly invent; a struggle between man and the elements, in which the most splendid manifestations of devotion, loyalty and courage are mingled with the vilest human passions." Shockingly, no book has been written about this fateful final journey until now. Martin Dugard finally brings to light this saga of shipwreck, mutiny, discovery, and political treachery—telling the story of how Columbus's quest to find a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril. Here we meet Christopher Columbus, the determined, and sometimes desperate, elder adventurer—a far cry from the shrouded hero/villain of legend. THE LAST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS offers up the long-lost last chapter in the life of a man whose story we only thought we knew.

Author Biography

Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of such nonfiction titles as Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook, Knockdown: The Harrowing True Account of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly, Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth, and, most recently, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone. He has written for Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated, and GQ. Dugard lives in Orange County, California, with his wife and three sons.

Table of Contents

In Chains	3	(4)
LOVE AND HOPE AND SEX AND DREAMS	7	(80)
1 The Voyage the Whole World Remembers	9	(6)
2 The Passage	15	(7)
3 Good Taste	22	(4)
4 Power	26	(5)
5 In Which Ferdinand and Isabella Realize Their Great Mistake	31	(6)
6 The Unexpected Portuguese Triumph	37	(11)
7 Mouth of the Serpent	48	(8)
8 In the Shape of a Woman's Breast	56	(11)
9 Bishop and Pawns	67	(20)
PARADISE LOST	87	(48)
10 The Administrator	89	(10)
11 Tears of Rage	99	(12)
12 Shipping Out	111	(7)
13 The Crossing	118	(17)
ADVENTURES OF A PERILOUS AND SWASHBUCKLING NATURE	135	(42)
14 The Unknown	137	(12)
15 Mosquito	149	(12)
16 Ojeda, Again	161	(5)
17 Shipworms	166	(11)
WAR	177	(34)
18 Dark December	179	(18)
19 Caribbean Sprint	197	(8)
20 Barely Afloat	205	(6)
CASTAWAY	211	(46)
21 Columbus's New World	213	(14)
22 Open Boat	227	(7)
23 The Porras Conspiracy	234	(10)
24 Civil War	244	(13)
Epilogue	257	(12)
Notes	269	(8)
Selected Bibliography	277	(4)
Index	281