Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of his historic transatlantic voyage, this book looks at the life and adventures of Christopher Columbus. Who was Columbus? Was he a great and courageous master-mariner who kept faith with his destiny and eventually confounded his critics, or a half-crazy zealot who ignored the truth? Would he have led his fleet to certain death - if America hadn't happened to be in the way? With the use of a series of friezes, the book sets out to show the greatness, and the folly, that led to his arrival on the shores of the New World. Oliver Postgate is the creator of children's characters such as Noggin the Nog, Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine.
- ISBN10 0862727383
- ISBN13 9780862727383
- Publish Date November 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 June 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Kingfisher Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 48
- Language English