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The Last Crusader: The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus

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Great overview of the man Columbus was, though I realize there are various opinions on this.. Columbus original writings & diaries are the best source, and he does seem to suggest that he realized his mission was a spiritual one.

A relatively useless pro-Columbus and hyper-religious tract whose principal good points are its brevity and the historical chronology of events at the back. Grant argues that all historical research and conclusions concerning the negative elements of Columbus's journeys (murder, genocide, plundering, disease, you name it) and "discoveries" are so much revisionist secularism and that Columbus was doing God's work, spreading the word, etc, etc. He also finds plenty of places throughout to opine on various modern-day political views, in every instance taking the hard-line evangelical conservative view. It's worth noting that this book was published by a hyper-evangelical publishing company, seeing as how no real publisher would touch it with a ten-foot pole. Avoid this one like a pot hole, unless you view Columbus as a candidate for canonization!