num_pages: 20
description: Christopher Columbus ranks among the most famous explorers of all time for having sailed the Atlantic in 1491 in search of the Far East but instead finding America. Born of Genoese parents, he had early seafaring experience in the Mediterranean, and later gained knowledge of the European and African north Atlantic coastline. The project of sailing westward across the Atlantic in search of the Indies emerged first in the 1480's, but it was not until October 1492 that his fleet of three small ships made its historic landfall on one of the Bahamas.
language: English
title: Christopher Columbus
titlecomplete: Christopher Columbus
ratings_count: 6
publisher: ISIS Audio Books