The Flying Canoes

This novella is based to some extent on historical facts. It tells the Arawak's story of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in October 1492 at his first American landfall on the tiny island of Guanahani in the Bahamas archipelago. This Arawak island was renamed San Salvador by the European navigator and explorer when he took possession of it in the name of the Spanish crown. This tale of the arrival of Columbus and his crew in their three sailing ships is related by an Arawak boy who describes the way of life of his people at the time of the arrival of these first Europeans in his part of the world more than five hundred years ago.