L'entreprise Des Indes

Ships do not only leave from ports, they leave driven by a dream.
Many historians have already commented and will comment on Christopher's Discovery and will argue about its consequences. Being his brother, the one who alone knew him from the beginning of his days, I saw his idea being born and his fever growing. It is this birth, it is his madness that I will tell. E. O.It is light, nervous, clever, documented. To read Orsenna is to rediscover America again and again.
Pierre Vavasseur, Le Parisien/ Aujourd'hui en France.He is at his best to evoke cartography, his great passion, and to bring to life this 15th century of all possibilities, through a sum of irresistible supporting characters. Above all, he gives an unedited portrait of the great Christopher Columbus. Delphine Peras, Lire.