order:
![Christopher Columbus' "Logbook"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-145845.jpg)
6
Bahamas
Christopher Columbus
Was this guy an evil proto-colonialist, or was he a sort of likeable dreamer?
Logbook | 1492 | 6 months | Bahamas | ship
![Fernão Mendes Pinto's "Pilgrimage"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/05/TLW-20140516-171628.jpg)
5
India
Fernão Mendes Pinto
If this is one of the classics of Portuguese literature, why is it such a slow read?
Pilgrimage | 1537 | 21 years | India | ship, caravan