This could be called a 'revisionist' interpretation of the the famous 1492 voyage of discovery of the Caribbean (and subsequently of the Americas) by Columbus. Its revisionist because the author writes about the ecological destruction of the the Caribbean islands, the effect it had on the native Tainos, who were initially praised by Columbus as of being a peaceful race and who later became chastise I am reading Kirkpatrick Sales' 'Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise' at the moment. I am reading Kirkpatrick Sales' 'Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise' at the moment.
