canada goose Columbus believed he would find monsters, not people, in the New World Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation 10h Wikimedia Commons When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain from his journey across the Atlantic, he reported that he didn’t find any ‘monstrous men’ in the Caribbean islands.Many European intellectuals at that time imagined monsters inhabited the lands beyond their borders.The earliest account of this belief was written by the Romans in 77 A.D., carried on through medieval Europe, and made its way into a 14th-century book written by an English knight named John Mandeville. Mandeville wrote of his travels to faraway lands, claiming he’d seen people with elephant ears and a creature with the head of a man and the body of a goat. In 1492, when Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search of a fast route to East Asia and the southwest Pacific, he landed in a place that was unknown to him. There he found treasures
