The Portuguese Columbus: Secret Agent of King John II

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By analyzing Columbuss handwriting and his (cabalistic) signature and through exhaustive code-breaking Barreto presents the evidence for his startling thesis that Columbus was a Portuguese spy in the court of the Spanish monarchs the Portuguese crowns arch-rivals with a mission to put Spain off the true route to India (around Africa) by misleading them into the Caribbean in search of a passage Columbus knew did not exist. Annotation copyright Book News Inc. Portland Or.