Essay at 3 Quarks Daily:
Searching For Exoplanets With Christopher Columbus
Recommended Reading
James S. A. Corey’s Expanse Series (the show is fantastic!)
Carol Delaney’s Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem: How Religion Drove the Voyages that Led to America
Michel Faber’s novel The Book of Strange New Things
Valerie Irene Jane Flint’s The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus and THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS
Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library
By Edward Wilson-Lee
Donald Goldsmith’s Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
Nicolás Wey-Gόmez’s The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
Amy Butler Greenfield’s A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
Alfred Hiatt’s Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes
Toby Lester’s The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
Ilan Stavans’ Imagining Columbus
Mary Doria Russell’s 1996 novel, The Sparrow
Mary Alexander Watts’ Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition: Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination
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