Christine Echeverria Bender

• Mar-2000
• / Historical
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A young basque whaler signs on with Christopher Columbus to sail across the Atlantic- and what they find is very different from what they expected. Based on the actual events described in Columbus s personal journals, Challenge the Wind combines a de...

• Jun-2005
• / Action Adventure
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Meticulously researched, Sails of Fortune details Ferdinand Magelllan's heroic attempt to circumnavigate the globe with his crew of Basque fishermen led by the stalwart Juan Sebastian de Elcano. Magellan is credited with circumnavigating the globe bu...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressOver a century before Columbus will venture across the Atlantic Ocean, a storm battered Basque whaling galleon drops anchor off the eastern coast in North America.  IN this savage new l...

• Aug-2013
• / Action Adventure
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press

In the early 1540s, amid the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, conquistador Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo receives orders from the Mexican viceroy to lead a fleet northward into unch...