The Accidental Indies

by Robert Finley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773520066
• ISBN13: 9780773520066
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!

I'm not just saying that because I know the author. He's an amazing writer, and this is an amazing book.

A terrific novel with a "you are there" approach for readers

This tale of Christopher Columbus provides a vivid story of his expedition to the Caribbean, providing a fictionalized account of his earliest explorations and including a healthy dose of poetic description. A unique "you are there" approach brings the experience to life: "It is not disappointment, but surprise to find so little of what he had been thinking of, ghosting in on the making tide to a broad and shining bay. The bosun sounds the still water. At every fall the lead marks its own centre; ripples widening outward link with those before and after, the ship's course marked by this light chain."