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pp. 453, source notes and index. “Not since Admiral Morison’s biography of Christopher Columbus half a century ago has there been a complete new assessment of the career of the man whose Caribbean landfall in 1492 changed forever both the Old World and the New. And never before have that career and its consequences been set in the appropriate context, revealing their vivid legacy through the subsequent five centuries. In ‘The Conquest of Paradise,’ anticipating the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s fateful expedition, Kirkpatrick Sale offers a portrait of the Great Discover that will surprise everyone – with a careful examination of original documents, including parts of Columbus’s own writings newly translated by the author, and a fresh analysis that challenges traditional biases.”