by Charles C. Mann - £12.99 Granta Books (2006)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781862078765 | ISBN 10: 1862078769
Up until recently it was believed that before Colombus landed there, the Americas were a near-pristine wilderness, barely marked by humankind. But many scholars have come to contest this view after unexpected discoveries dramatically changed their understanding of Indian life. In 1491 Charles C. Mann provides a new and fascinating account of the Americas before Colombus.
"A devastatingly fascinating read - iconoclastic yet not sensational. In a single impressive sweep, it dismantles traditional popular myths about the history, scale and scope of the culture and impacr of American Indians in the centuries prior to the footfall of Colombus. It gives us a slowly developing photographic image of that first era, written compellingly, sometimes movingly, and in a prose that matches the drama of the subject with readability in abundance."
(Scotland on Sunday)
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