#7 The Admiral of the Ocean Sea Part 5

This is our last episode on Christopher Columbus. This time we discuss the voyage home, which required impressive seamanship in the context of delivering some of the most important news ever to travel by sea, and the spreading of that news once Nina and Pinta got back to Europe. Columbus’s return trip from the western hemisphere was almost unbelievably dangerous, and as much a part of the miracle of his venture as the trip across to the west. Please refer to the show notes for the previous episodes at www.thehistoryoftheamericans.com for useful maps and references. I paced this one a little faster than the previous episodes. I’m interested in what you think of it, or whether you prefer a somewhat slower cadence. Reference for this episode Samuel Eliot Morison, The Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus