Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth

Title: Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth
Author: Hans Koning
ISBN: 0853458251
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 141
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:

The true history of Christopher Columbus and his fateful voyage

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.