"Not long after his heroic first journey, Columbus confessed that commercial, imperial, and colonial interests were of only minor concern to him....Instead, he was inspired and driven by altogether different aspirations and another, still higher, royal commission:
""It was the Lord who put it in me to sail from here to the Indies. The fact that the Gospel must be preached to so many lands, that is what convinced me. Charting the seas is but a necessary requisite for the fulfillment of the Great Commission of our glorious Savior.""
-- excerpt from The Last Crusader: The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus by George Grant
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This is an excellent, readable and engaging history of a great man. I highly recommend.
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