From New York Times best-selling author Laurence Bergreen comes a mesmerizing new account of Christopher Columbus. In rich detail Bergreen re-creates each of the explorer's four voyages and the historical background of his controversial career. Drawing on the vivid descriptions of contemporaneous journals, this breathtaking account will appeal to readers of Bergreen's previous biographies and to fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.