The Real Book About Christopher Columbus by Irvin Block

The Real Book About Christopher Columbus
Irvin Block
New York: Garden City Books, 1953
190 pages
Illustrated by Rus Anderson
Edited by Helen Hoke
Book Club edition

The binding is in good condition, the pages are clean but lightly tanned. The tan cover shows light wear.  The dust jacket is toned and has a small amount of edge wear. Good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

The American continents were for ages a mystery. A lost world hidden in the expanses of the unexplored Ocean Sea. They were discovered at last by a poor weaver's son, who, although an excellent navigator, never realized what he had found. In fact, the discovery of the New world was a mistake! This is the action filled story of that "mistake," a true tale about a real man - Christopher Columbus, mapmaker, explorer, dreamer, hero and tyrant. You will read about the way he and his sailors lived and worked; how his ships were built and how they were sailed on the daring voyage of discovery. .11  (#000084)