Columbus (novel)

Columbus is a romantic adventure novel by the British writer Rafael Sabatini which was first published in 1941.

It depicts the life of Christopher Columbus at the Spanish court, his voyages across the Atlantic Ocean in which he discovered the Americas and his relationship with the mother of his second son Beatriz Enríquez de Arana, whom he never married.

[1] The story is in the style of his previous works Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, which had already been adapted into hit films, and portrayed Columbus as a swashbuckler.

It was produced by Sydney Box and made in Technicolor with the American actor Fredric March cast as Columbus.

Box was unhappy with Sabatini's script, which he considered historically inaccurate and overly romantic.