The Garden of the Golden Apples: Vol. 1c; Christopher Columbus' first voyage as told by his crew. (Volume 1)

Vol. 1c; The Garden of the Golden Apples; Unannotated. Two thousand years after the Greeks suspected the Earth was spherical and seventeen hundred years after they knew for sure the Earth was spherical, many sailors still thought the Earth flat; this is why Christopher Columbus had trouble manning his expedition; the Catholic Kings' Secretary, charged with outfitting Columbus' expedition, found a way: he issued an order by which all convicts could escape their sentence, be it prison or even death, if they joined the expedition. And so was assembled Christopher Columbus' motley crew. These are the men telling us the story of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas and it's shipwreck...