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Everyone knows Columbus reached the New World in October of 1492. But where? Now David Henige here subjects Columbus' diario to rigorous analysis to conclude that modern attempts to fix the site of Columbus's first landfall can only be speculative at best.

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Henige's vigorously argued and provocatively written textual analysis of the diario of Christopher Columbus (actually Bartolom'e de Las Casas's transcription of Columbus's record of his famed voyage in 1492) will discomfit all who have used the text as a historical source. Part 1 discusses the role of textual criticism and documentary editing, variations and interrelationships among the extant early sources for Columbus's voyage, and the wide range of interpretation of selected passages in the diario. In Part 2, Henige explores the vexed question of where Columbus landed first and where he was from 11 to 15 October, 1492, by considering the diario's comments on such things as land size, terrain, and sailing direction. Henige concludes that neither the text nor related documents by Las Casas or Ferdinand Columbus support definitively any of the conflicting claims for where Columbus first landed. This stimulating study conclusively demonstrates ways in which historians and others interested in the landfall question have strayed from the textual evidence in order to support their pet theories. Buttressed by a full bibliography and useful index, this book belongs in the library of every institution that offers a major in history or a course in textual criticism.-M. A. Burkholder, University of Missouri-St. Louis