Christopher Columbus : the life of a master navigator and explorer /
by David West & Jackie Gaff ; illustrated by Ross Watton.
- London : Book House, 2005
- 48 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.
Before Christopher Columbus's voyages to the West Indies and Central and South America, Europeans knew nothing of the Americas in the New World. His four journeys, beginning in 1492 and ending in 1504, blazed a sea route west across the Atlantic Ocean