"Christopher Columbus. His Life and Travels "is a book of the biographical series" The Life of Remarkable People "about the navigator Christopher Colombo (Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristóbal Colón, 1451-1506). Christopher Columbus is a Spanish navigator of Italian origin, who, by order of the king, set out to conquer the American continent. He was the first to cross the Atlantic in the subtropical strip, and also initiated the exploration of the exotic islands of Jamaica and Cuba.