Columbus, the Discarded Explorer

Disaster of the legendary sailor

by Wolfgang Wissler

Description

There he stands, the man the whole of Spain cheered, before whom the most catholic regents Isabella and Ferdinand rose to their feet, his eyes on his ship Capitana, devoured by shipworm, stranded off Jamaica. Some of the crew mutiny, the locals can no longer be fobbed off with glass beads, the Spanish on the nearby island of Hispaniola do not help, the world doesn‘t want anything to do with him, the demanding whinger. He, Christopher Columbus, is a John Lackland, a king without land, a conqueror without conquest. Between fiction and historical truth, Wolfgang Wissler recounts the legendary sailor‘s last expedition in an entirely new way – and what a story it is!

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Italian language rights sold

Author Biography

Wolfgang Wissler has worked for the daily newspaper “Südkurier”– currently as the political editor – for almost three decades. His most recent publication is a collection of seven murderously exciting short stories.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher S. Hirzel Verlag
  • Publication Date March 2021
  • Orginal LanguageGerman
  • ISBN/Identifier 9783777629162
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 22 EUR
  • Pages192
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleKolumbus, der entsorgte Entdecker. Das Desaster des legendären Seefahrers
  • Copyright Year2021
  • SeriesHirzel Narrative Non-fiction

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