Books by David Boyle
“Boyle writes about Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci all together, advancing a theory that they knew each other very well, and interacted and influenced each other far more than has been previously understood. It stimulates the readers’s imagination. Boyle writes really well, and with enthusiasm. I like his writing style.” Read more...
The best books on Christopher Columbus
Matthew Restall, Historian
Interviews where books by David Boyle were recommended
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Columbus: And the Conquest of the Impossible
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto -
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The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
by Carla Rahn Phillips & William D. Phillips Jr. -
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Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America
by David Boyle -
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
by Edward Wilson-Lee -
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Sinking Columbus: Contested History, Cultural Politics, and Mythmaking during the Quincenterary
by Stephen J. Summerhill
The best books on Christopher Columbus, recommended by Matthew Restall
The best books on Christopher Columbus, recommended by Matthew Restall
Heroic explorer or harbinger of doom? The impact of Christopher Columbus has become the focus of intense debate—both ini academia and in the arena of popular opinion—in recent years. We asked noted scholar of colonial Latin American history Matthew Restall to recommend five of the best books that explore Columbus’s life and legacy.
