Paperback
(Scholastic Book Services, March 15, 1965)
1965 third printing, Scholastic paperback. TW 382. Suddenly Columbus' ship was attacked by pirates. The ship caught on fire and began to sink. Many sailors jumped into the sea. Columbus Jumped too. But he had hurt his leg. He could not swim to shore. And now it was dark.
Recounts the life of Christopher Columbus from his boyhood and life as a sailor to his death in poverty, ignorant of the importance of his celebrated journey