The Accidental Indies (Unabridged)

At once moving and lyrical, The Accidental Indies is a tale in which we join Christopher Columbus on a fantastical voyage through western seas and Western imagination. Robert Finley imagines, sings, charts, and paints the story of Columbus's problematic 1492 expedition to the Caribbean, creating a world that is as vivid and compelling as the explorer's own voyage to the misnamed «Indies». It is a journey through wondrous words that begins with Columbus's earliest explorations when he first «tests the heft and roundness of this earth against his infant head» by stepping from the edge of his rocking cradle to come up short on the boards of the nursery floor. …