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Christopher Columbus in Print

Books about the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

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Biographies of Christopher Columbus

Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth
by Hans Koning

Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined
by Miles H. Davidson

Columbus: The Triumphant Failure
by Oliver Postgate

Columbus and the World Around Him
by Milton Meltzer

Discovery & Historical Background

Christopher Columbus, Cosmographer: A History of Metrology, Geodesy, Geography, and Exploration from Antiquity to the Columbian Era
by Fred F. Kravath

Columbus & Cortez: Conquerors for Christ
by John Eidsmoe

Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering Ideology
by Djelal Kadir

Discovering Christopher Columbus: How History Is Invented
by Kathy Pelta

Primary and Secondary Sources about Christopher Columbus

The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
(American Exploration & Travel Series, Vol 70)
by Christopher Columbus; edited by Oliver Dunn, James E. Kelley

First Voyage to America: From the Log of the 'Santa Maria'
by Christopher Columbus

The Letter of Columbus On His Discovery of the New World
by Christopher Columbus

The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by His Son Ferdinand
by Ferdinand Columbus; translated by Benjamin Keen

Books for Younger Readers about Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus and the Great Voyage of Discovery: With a Message from President George Bush
(Picture-Book Biography Series, Vol 1)
by Joanne B. Weisman, Kenneth M. Deitch; illustrated by Marion Eldridge

Ages 4-8

Christopher Columbus
(First Biographies)
by Jan Gleiter, Kathleen Thompson; illustrated by Rick Whipple

Follow the Dream
illustrated by Peter Sis; edited by T. Gates

Christopher Columbus
(Step into Reading, a Step 2 Book)
by Stephen Krensky; illustrated by Norman Green

The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 [ABRIDGED]
by Christopher Columbus, John O'Hara, II Cosgrave

Ages 9-12

America in the Time of Columbus: From Earliest Times to 1590
(America in the Time Of)
by Sally Senzell Isaacs

Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the New World
(Explorers of the New World)
by Carole Gallagher

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