The voyage of the Vizcaína : the mystery of Christopher Columbus's last ship / Klaus Brinkbäumer and Clemens Höges ; translated from the German by Annette Streck
NMAI copy 39088017837824 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema.
Contents:
The wreck in the Bay of Playa Damas -- Man without a home, man without a name -- The secret behind the great enterprise -- Monks and slave traders -- Tierra! tierra! -- The fallen hero -- The last voyage -- Shipwrecks and mutiny -- A ship without a name
Summary:
"Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape detection for centuries before it was discovered in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Klaus Brinkbaumer and Clemens H̲ges, journalists with the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and also amateur divers, were the first to assemble a team of experts to analyze the remains. They determined that it was not only the oldest wreck ever found in the Western Hemisphere, but also very likely the remains of the Vizcaina, one of the ships Christopher Columbus took on his last trip to the New World. The Voyage of the Vizcaina, set to be published on the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's death, combines investigative journalism, archaeology, and historical re-creation to give us the fascinating story-and startling truths-behind Columbus's final attempt to reach the East by going west"--Publisher's description.
