Islands
Subtitle: Grand Bahama
Publisher: David & Charles Ltd.
Published: 1972
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780715356555
First sentence: On the 3rd August 1492 a little known Genoese sailor, armed with a concession from the Spanish Crown to take possession of "certain islands and mainland in the western ocean," set sail from the tiny seaport of Palos, in Spain on an adventure that would galvanize western civilisation.