cover image Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth

Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth

Hans Koning. Monthly Review Press, $13 (141pp) ISBN 978-0-85345-825-8

Koning exposes Columbus's less-than-noble side: his greedy, gold-motivated explorations, his New World ``discovery'' which allowed the plunder and murder of America's native peoples, and his return from his fourth voyage as an old man in disgrace. (June)no PW review