Author Name: MARLOWE, STEPHEN.
Title: THE MEMOIRS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
Binding: Hard Cover Book Condition: Very Good in Good DJ Edition: First edition Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. ISBN Number: 0684187698 / 9780684187693
Seller ID: 11
Historical novel of Christopher Columbus' life & adventures, narrarated by the famous explorer himself. Filled with adventures, misadventures, love, mistresses, mutineers, courtiers, ubiquitous money men, harried alchemists, gypsies, pirates & monks. In his series of misadventures he reunites with his long-lost brother and in turn becomes husband, father, widower; he seeks help for his Great Venture from the King of Portugal and then from Fernando and Isabel of Spain pleading his cause at the many way-stations of their Perpatetic Royal Court; he enters Their Majesties' Secret Service to bring down the final Morrish stronghold in Granada; and, in 1492, he sails west into the unknown to became a legend in his over time and for all time.
Black cloth boards & spine. DW not price clipped glossy pale brown, 1 by 1 inch chip to mid front joint. Half inch chip to lower edge, half inch closed tear to heal spine. 1st Edition. sm 4 to, 569 pages. Text mild toning.
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