![]() ![]() ![]() In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Reminiscent of John McPhee's eloquence with scientific detail." Mann slips in so many fresh, new interpretations of American history that it all adds up to a deeply subversive work." Our concept of pure wilderness untouched by grubby human hands must now be jettisoned." Mann has chronicled an important shift in our vision of world development, one out young children could end up studying in their text books when they reach junior high." A Jared Diamond-like volley that challenges prevailing thinking about global development. Part detective story, part epic and part tragedy." "Engagingly written and utterly absorbing. 1491 vividly compels us to re-examine how we teach the ancient history of the Americas and how we live with the environmental consequences of colonization." "Mann tells a powerful, provocative and important story. It replaces that fallacy with evidence of a different genesis, exciting and closer to true." 1491 erases our myth of a wilderness Eden. "A ripping, man-on-the-ground tour of a world most of us barely intuit. ![]() ![]() A landmark of a book that drops ingrained images of colonial American into the dustbin, one after the other." A sweeping portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. ![]()
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