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Few events in human history are as widely known yet as poorly understood as Columbus's Atlantic crossing of 1492. This book-length focus on that voyage is thus an important and welcome gift to instructors, students, and curious readers. Through his careful selection and expert packaging of revealing documents, James Wadsworth gently guides us into seeing 1492 from multiple perspectives-as provocative as they are fascinating. Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History, Pennsylvania State University, USA Columbus and His First Voyage serves both as a useful teaching tool by introducing a wide range of scholarly opinion and primary sources and by making easily available the sources that challenge the traditional story told by Columbus and his family. William D. Phillips, Jr., Professor Emeritus of History, University of Minnesota, USA

Few events in human history are as widely known yet as poorly understood as Columbus's Atlantic crossing of 1492. This book-length focus on that voyage is thus an important and welcome gift to instructors, students, and curious readers. Through his careful selection and expert packaging of revealing documents, James Wadsworth gently guides us into seeing 1492 from multiple perspectives-as provocative as they are fascinating. * Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Columbus and His First Voyage serves both as a useful teaching tool by introducing a wide range of scholarly opinion and primary sources and by making easily available the sources that challenge the traditional story told by Columbus and his family. * William D. Phillips, Jr., Professor Emeritus of History, University of Minnesota, USA *

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James E. Wadsworth is Professor of History at Stonehill College, USA. He is the author of Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil (2007) and In Defence of the Faith: Joaquim Marques de Araujo, A Brazilian Comissario in the Age of Inquisitional Decline (2013).

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