num_pages: 155
description: This controversial biography of Christopher Columbus argues that he is best understood as a primitive celestial navigator, fuelled by a progressive religiosity yet strongly influenced by mysticism and millennarianism.
language: English
title: Columbus and the Conquest of the Impossible
titlecomplete: Columbus and the Conquest of the Impossible
genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 27
publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson