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Most of us have been taught to think of Christopher Columbus as a
single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led
him to "discover" the Americas. In this beautifully written
revisionist biography, accessible to people of all ages, Hans
Koning gives us the true history of Columbus' life and voyages.
Koning describes how Columbus' consuming drive to send mountains of
gold back to Spain shaped his life, beginning the story with his
childhood in Genoa and ending after his return from his fourth and
final voyage, an old man in disgrace. He shows how Columbus'
discovery led to the enrichment of the conquerors through the
plunder and murder of the native peoples of the Americas. In an
afterword for teachers, Bill Bigelow a high school social studies
teacher and the author of several curricula shows how the book can
be imaginatively used in the classroom to teach students to read
history skeptically. "The book is an idea that has finally found
its time." --Publisher's Weekly "I think your book on Christopher
Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any
other book I have read in a couple of years." --Kurt Vonnegut
In "Columbus: His Enterprise", Hans Koning describes the
personality and motivation of a man who changed the course of
hisotry. Exploding the myth of the Great Navigator, the author
reveals how Colombus accidentally found a continent and
systematically pillaged its resources. This controversial book
depicts a Columbus not only obsessed by gold but willing to endorse
murder for it. 1992 marks the 500th anniversary of Columbus'
arrival in the New World. To the indigenous peoples of Latin
America the event is no cause for rejoicing. In an afterwood to
"Columbus: His Enterprise", Domitila Chungara, the renowned
Bolivian activist, laments "The invasion of our lands, the theft of
our riches...the most horrific thing that they could ever do to our
people".
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