Columbus: The Four Voyages Laurence Bergreen. Viking, $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-02301-1. Columbus’s first voyage to the New World was one of the formative events of human history.

COLUMBUS: THE FOUR VOYAGES By Laurence Bergreen Viking, $35, 423 pages To recall Samuel Eliot Morison’s generation-old writings about Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration is to summon ...

In “Columbus: The Four Voyages: 1492 – 1504,” Laurence Bergreen states: “For all the scorn Columbus engendered, his four voyages constitute one of the greatest adventure stories in history.” ...

Columbus made four voyages to America, during which he explored an astonishingly large area of the Caribbean and a part of the northern coast of South America.

Scott Simon talks with Martin Dugard, author of The Last Voyage of Columbus. Dugard delves into the rarely portrayed final journey of the famous explorer. Columbus's problems began, ironically ...

As described in Maria Rosa Monacal’s 2002 book, “The Ornament of the World,” Torres left with Columbus’s first voyage on August 3, 1492, ...

We have celebrated Columbus Day as a national holiday since the 1940s. We’ve seen Italian-Americans and other immigrant groups embrace Columbus as the first immigrant to the New World.