Martin Dugard talked about his book [The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery]. The author ...

Samuel Eliot Morison was a professor at Harvard University, an admiral, historian of American naval adventures in World War II and a yachtsman who traced in his own vessel the voyage of Columbus ...

MARTIN DUGARD is the author of "The Last Voyage of Columbus." IN A SCENE straight out of the television show “CSI,” Spanish forensic scientists spent the first few months of this year taking ...

Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery : The name alone is enough to send ordinarily ...

“Columbus was 6 feet tall, had red hair and freckles,” said Dugard, who wrote “The Last Voyage of Columbus” in 2005. “He was a mystery man, although we all recognize his name.”Because ...

There is something to be said for reading "The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War ...

During Christopher Columbus' fourth voyage to the new world, the explorer added another first to his amazing life story during the summer of 1502– he gave the first documented hurricane warning ...

I n 1504, Christopher Columbus, on his fourth trans-Atlantic voyage, was stranded on the shores of Jamaica, with his ships crawling with marine worms and his crew hungry. The Indigenous Arawak ...

The astronomical tables that Columbus consulted during his voyage proved useful for determining latitude and, to some degree, longitude. A prediction contained in the tables probably saved his ...