Perhaps only Shakespeare has generated as much controversy as Christopher Columbus over his "true" identity. In writing The Race to the New World I had to sift through the evidence for the explorer's early life, along the way confronting the various theories that he was not who he appeared to be, namely a native of Genoa. I address the evidence for his Genoese roots in a new essay on the book's website, adapted from the first chapter of the book.
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