THIS IS THE ACTUAL LOG of Christopher Columbus as copied out in brief by his companion, Bartholomew Las Casas.  Besides being authentic source material about the voyage and the core of the Columbus legend, this journal has all the day-by-day enchantment of a long sea voyage with all the drama of a small ship steering into the unknown-the first pelican, a crab in the seaweed, a branch of roseberries and a carved log found floating in the water, mutterings of mutiny, and the constant watch for signs of land.

John O'Hara Cosgrove II adds to the book on every page with pictures of whales and riggings, compasses and charts, which are both decorative and accurate pictorial footnotes on the log.

From the dust jacket of the Linnet reprint