Richly illustrated and enhanced with maps that are as legible as they are relevant, “Columbus: The Four Voyages” is complex in its themes, intriguing in its substance and sparkling with surprises.

Columbus’s first voyage to the New World was one of the formative ... rendering a dramatic story that will appeal to general readership. 7 maps. (Sept.) ...

that they practically handed the New World to Columbus. Indeed, a pair of treaties dreamed up a decade earlier and brokered with Ferdinand and Isabella four months prior to his voyage had given ...

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.

As the author of “Columbus: The Four Voyages,” which surveys the explorer ... Next, there’s the evidence in Columbus’ own hand: his map of the coastline where the ship supposedly sank.

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.