Christopher Columbus Mariner Author:Samuel Eliot Morison " ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA" One of the great adventure tales of all time,this is the breathtaking story of Christopher Columbus, the canny and skillful Genoese sailor who set out to explore the Indies and discovered the New World instead! Columbus's journeys in tiny ships across thousands of miles of unknown oceans,battling all kinds of weather ... more »and often dealing with unruly crews are among the most significant achievements of recorded history.This true saga by one of America's leading historians is based on his two -volume work,Admiral of the Ocean,which won a Pulitzer Prize.« less