The World of Columbus and Sons Author:Genevieve Foster Last published in 1965, this is the story of a wonderful, changing, reawakening world -- the world of the Renaissance and the Reformation. During their lifetime, the world literally bursts forth out of its deep sleep and is lifted from the Dark Ages. With Columbus as the principal character, Prince Henry the Navigator, Ivan III, Gutenburg, Queen... more » Isabella, Leonardo da Vinci, Mohammed II, Nomi Mansa, Martin Luther, Vasco de Gama, Copernicus, Michelangelo and a host of others all come to life as Foster weaves this pageantry of history. It is out of the increasing enlightenment of this era of religious, cultural and scientific change that discovery and exploration began which would forever change the world as it was known. « less