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 ...

Bergreen, who wrote the book, “Columbus: The Four Voyages,” made the comment two days after rioters in Baltimore pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus that former President Ronald ...

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.” ...

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, ...

The full-scale replica of Christopher Columbus’s famous flagship from his 1492 voyage will be open to the public ...