INTO UNCHARTED SEAS begins in Genoa, setting the stage for the birth and life of Christopher Columbus, the leading figure of the Age of Discovery. This historical novel is a blend of true history, adventure story, and psychological portrait.
The book’s early chapters reveal the dramas and routines that molded the mind of the future explorer. He hears stories of the fall of Constantinople from merchants and sailors; he learns to write while copying The Travels of Marco Polo. Documents, books, and maps fascinate the boy, and his map-making skill takes him to Portugal, the world’s capital of exploration and shipping.
Columbus’s adventures are shown as part of a vast tapestry of simultaneous changes. Portuguese explorers make huge discoveries on the African coast and the Indian Ocean… After a long struggle, Ferdinand and Isabella assume the Spanish throne… The Spaniards finally prevail in their centuries-old fight with the Moors… The Spanish Inquisition permeates Spanish society, spreading hatred and vindictiveness... As Columbus sets sail in 1492, Spanish Jews are expelled from their homeland…
This author’s Columbus is driven by two things: burning ambition to make a name for himself and a heartfelt desire to spread his Christian faith. He possesses amazing navigational skills and incredible luck, but proves unable to administrate day-to-day affairs in the lands he discovered, descending into inexplicable cruelty. His early triumphs contrast starkly with his last days, when setbacks left him physically and emotionally exhausted, wracked by fears about his loss of status.
The unifying theme of INTO UNCHARTED SEAS is the power of thoughts and ambition, combined with the needs of a given historical era, to radically change a man’s life and the world he lives in, for better or worse.
INTO UNCHARTED SEAS, the life and times of Christopher Columbus
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