Exploring The Reality and Legacy of Christopher Columbus
The award-winning author and historian Matthew Restall unpacks Columbus’ enduring cultural and political presence while weaving a new history of the modern world.
During a stay in Galicia, Spain, Restall was startled to encounter a local castle claiming to be Columbus’ true birthplace. Locals insisted that Columbus, an Italian by birth, was born and raised in Galicia under the name of a local lord, Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior. Thus began an in-depth investigation into the stories swirling around Columbus six centuries after his birth.
In the years since Columbus “sailed the ocean blue in…
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