Columbus in the Americas

Was Christopher Columbus an inspired explorer and brilliant navigator whose daring voyages proved the naysayers wrong -- or was he a misinformed dreamer who succeeded by luck and never understood the true nature of his discovery? Was he a man of his time whose behavior should not be judged by modern standards -- or a ruthless conquistador whose brutality and greed shocked even some of his contemporaries and laid the groundwork for genocide?

In Columbus in the Americas, the bestselling author …