The Last Crusader: The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781591283669)

You know the year he sailed the ocean blue. An maybe you heard that he committed crimes against humanity. But The Last Crusader sets the record straight.

More than anything, Christopher Columbus sought the means to subsidize a new Crusade to free the Holy Land from the Moslem hordes. Yes Columbus hoped to open trade routes to the Indies, and he certainly aspired to the privileges and titles that come with discovering new lands. But Christian zeal for the Great Commission was the animating principle for a life of danger and risk and discovery.

This is the untold story of Christopher Columbus, the last Crusader.