Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise: Second Edition (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
"This wide-angled history represents a major rethinking of the relationship between Europe and America."--Publishers Weekly"In the flood of new Columbus scholarship, this certainly merits a place on all libraries' shelves."--Library Journal"This is a work of haunting attraction, of splendid magnitude, illuminating scholarship and compelling strength and imagination...I am filled with admiration."--Joseph Heller"At once magnificent and important."--Financial Times"To Sale's credit, he preserves for the reader the aura of mystery with which Columbus shrouded himself. By so doing, he has given us a fascinating account of the life and times of the man with whom, as Sale nicely puts it, the modern world begins."--Ron Grossman,Tribune"In Kirkpatrick Sale's eloquent and passionate treatment, Columbus and the Columbian legacy become a paradigm for the ruthless expansion of Western Europeans overseas. Sale's examination of Columbus has a hard-minded quality that cuts through much obfuscation and legend--Sale has written a work of considerable virtues."--American Historical Review