Mercedes from Castile

1492 - a significant date in the history of the reign of Isabella of Castille: the surrender of the Moorish Granada and a meeting with the crazy son of the weaver who dreams of becoming an admiral and persistently offering a rather daring enterprise - to find a new path to the noble treasures of East India, bypassing the ambushes of pirates and Turkish posts . in the next The volume of “adventure masters” includes the famous sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper “Mercedes from Castile, or a trip to Katai” is one of the first books of world literature, who told ordinary readers a dangerous campaign through an “unknown and immeasurable space in the West” of a sailor from Genoa, who became famous For centuries under the name of Christopher Columbus, and never learned the whole truth about his great discovery