Martin Alonso Pinzon

G. Edwin Tilston brings to life the years that lead up to the sailing of the Pinzon fleet in August 1492. He rivets your imagination with adventure, war, sea battles, love, the burgeoning terror of the Spanish Inquisition, the victorious battle of Granada which expelled the Moors from Iberia after 700 years of occupation, and Isabella's forced eviction of the Jews. With meticulously researched historical fact, Tilston uncovers how Martin Alonso Pinzon conceived, planned, and successfully carried out the famous voyage of discovery as described in the litigation brought by the Castillian crown against the Columbus family in 1506. How Vicente Yanez Pinzon, Martin Alonso's younger brother, takes his beloved Gabriela to Sevilla to stand by her parents when they are arrested by the Inquisition and thereby witness the horror of the auto de fe where heretics are tortured and burned at the stake. Christopher Columbus did not discover the new world! Martin Alonso Pinzon did! Hail Pinzonia!