China, Japan, or The Indies! (Christopher Columbus) by Robert Rigby

China, Japan, or The Indies! (Christopher Columbus) by Robert Rigby

Christopher Columbus is convinced that the world is round, but no-one believes him.After a lot of persuasion, the King and Queen of Spain give him money to sail West on the promise of returning with gold, silk and spices from the East!  Days, weeks and months are spent at sea looking for land, and eventually Columbus and crew find it, but there's no gold, silk or spices. Could this be China, Japan or possibly the Indies, and does Columbus ever realise that he has actually discovered America? A great supplement for curriculum work on explorers and the discovery of the new world, with a good mixture of sailors and royalty.