Columbus

ColumbusBy: Laurence Bergreen He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made all the difference, an inborn sense of the sea, of wind and

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