Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth - Softcover

Hans Koning

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853458251 ISBN 13: 9780853458258

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 1992

Synopsis

"The book is an idea that has finally found its time."
--Publisher's Weekly

"I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years."
--Kurt Vonnegut

About this title

About the Author:

Former New Yorker reporter Hans Koning was born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam and was a student when World War II broke out and the Germans invaded. He escaped and joined the British Army. After the war, he attended the University of Amsterdam and the Sorbonne, simultaneously working as a full-time writer and journalist. In 1951, Koning caught a freighter to the United States, where he continued to work as a freelance writer and began The Affair (1958), the first of his thirteen novels. Koning now lives in Connecticut with his wife, Kate, and is, as always, writing. In addition to his twenty-two books, three plays, and two translations, he has written political-travel pieces as a reporter-at-large for The New Yorker and has reported for The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times.

From Publishers Weekly:

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

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About this edition

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0853458251
• ISBN 13: 9780853458258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 141