At the heart of its message is an impassioned plea for the magic and power of words. Jeanne, the tough-minded ten-year-old narrator, and Thomas, fourteen, are traveling to America on an ocean liner to visit their mother when a violent storm sinks the...
The Columbus brothers worked relentlessly for eight years to prepare the voyage Christopher dreamed of: the search for the passage to the Indies, Cipango and the Empire of the Great Khan. Bartolomeo tells the story from the very outset; he is his bro...
Shipwrecked off the coast of Portugal on the 13th of August 1476, the 25-year-old Genoa-born Christopher Columbus finds refuge with his younger brother Bartholomew, a map maker in Lisbon, the centre of exploration endeavours. Where many would find th...