Columbus
October 10, 2011 Monday AT 3PM CT

 
 

In his biography, Columbus: The Four Voyages, Laurence Bergreen portrays Columbus as brilliant, audacious, volatile, paranoid and ruthless. What emerges in his biography is a surprising and revealing portrait of a man who might have been the title character in a Shakespearean tragedy.



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  • Lawrence Bergreen, award winning biographer, historian and chronicler of explorations. His books have been translated into 20 languages worldwide.
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