Voyage of Mercy

Type: Book

As of November 2026, Voyage of Mercy has been mentioned in one podcast episode on American History Tellers (Jan 2025). Book recommended for further reading about America's response to the Irish famine.

Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America. These voyages led to Europeans learning about the New World. This was an early breakthrough in the period known in Europe as the Age of Exploration, which saw the colonization of the Americas, a related biological exchange, and trans-Atlantic trade. These events, the effects and