Christopher Columbus Project Book

by David McDowall

Looks at the motives behind Christopher Columbus' journey to the American continent, and what he found on his first, second and third voyages. The book explores 15th-century ships and navigation and also examines the impact made by the European explorers on the indiginous population.

Paperback

About the author

David McDowall has lived and worked in various parts of the world: in Hong Kong, Iraq, the Lebanon and Austria, serving in HM Forces, the British Council and the United Nations. He has traveled widely in the Near East and has written extensively on both British and Middle Eastern history, in particular on the Palestine Question, the Lebanese conflict, and the Kurds of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. He now writes walkers' guides to some of Britain's historic landscapes. He is married to the writer Elizabeth Laird.