THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, VOL. II

Journey chronicles 1493-1504 Through these pages of memoirs, letters and reports by Christopher Columbus, we see unfolding before us the exciting adventures during his three later voyages, after the first, to the Indies he believed, until his death, that he had discovered. Beyond his visions, beyond the theocratic concept of his time and beyond the supposedly sacred purpose of Christianizing the Indians, in these voyages, the desire for the gold and other goods that existed in those lands, and for which he comes across so many adventures on land and sea, is even more prominent, since Columbus himself, from being Viceroy of the Indies, becomes a victim of slander to the kings of Spain. Beyond the struggles, the plots and the hither and thither accusations of these first colonialists, we discover once again the New World through the eyes of the narrators, and even with the particular eloquence of the Admiral, so that everything, incessantly, seems like a fairy tale, since the unknown will never cease to spark the imagination and cover everything with magic, for all ages.