Columbus--For Gold, God, and Glory

An Excellent reference - based on good research work, some of it carried out by Dr. Luis Coin Cuenca of the University of Cadiz. I first read it in February 1993 and still refer to it now and again.It covers earlier European voyages to the Americas, Vikings but NOT St Brendan's Irish voyage to Greenland etc, circa 570 AD.Nor to speak does it cover the undiscoverd maps or puertolanos passed down from generation to generation of the Basque Cod fishing grounds located between Iceland and North America.It also covers Colon's earlier voyages along the coast Africa and northern Europe and the very interesting clues that existed of another continent in the west atlantique. Interestingly it does mention a mysterious map or puertolano in the initial voyage.However it is Eurocentric and neglects to mention the great Arab explorers nor the voyages of Asian (Chineese, Polyanesian and ? Australian aborigines- whose remains were found in-Cien Fuegos-Chile & Brazil 3 years ago) to the North American continent.Other interesting tales of discovery are 'the Adventures of Ibn Battuta' by ross Dunn ISBN: 0520067436 and the voyages of discovery of 'Pytheas the Greek' by Barry Cunliffe ISBN: [email protected]