RACE TO THE NEW WORLD

Each schoolchild is aware of that “in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue”―however what they do not train you in historical past class is that he wasn’t the one one. In The Race to the New World, Douglas Hunter tells for the primary time the fascinating story of how Christopher Columbus was embroiled in a high-stakes race with Venetian John Cabot to discover a shortcut to the East―and the way they discovered a New World that neither was in search of. Using recent analysis and new translations of essential paperwork, Hunter reveals the surprisingly intertwined lives of the fabled explorer and his forgotten rival, and offers a recent perspective on the primary years of the European discovery of the New World.