CHAPTER I.BOY WITH AN IDEA.
Men who do great things are men we all like to read about.

This is the story of Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America.

He lived four hundred years ago.

When he was a little boy he lived in Genoa.
It was a beautiful city in the northwestern part of the country called Italy.

The mountains were behind it; the sea was in front of it, and it was so beautiful a place that the people who lived there called it "Genoa the Superb." Christopher Columbus was born in this beautiful city of Genoa in the year 1446, at number 27 Ponticello Street.