Description: A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Columbus--his life, his legacies, and the controversies that outlived him.
Brief description: Matthew Restall is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, and director of Latin American Studies, at Penn State University. He is the author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest and When Montezuma Met Cortés, among other books.
Review Quotes: [E]ntertaining and unpredictable...surprising and significant...The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus offers some key interventions. One is to restore Columbus to his proper dimension...Restall is, amazingly, able to say something new and interesting about a figure for whom everything had seemingly been said already.--Andrés Reséndez "New York Times Book Review"