1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann with Peter Johnson

11 hours, 16 minutes first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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This book is perfect for readers who relish having long-held assumptions upended by wide-ranging evidence and who enjoy tracing how new findings reshape an entire civilization’s story.

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History. Charles Mann is a brilliant synthesizer and popularizer of scholarly ideas. In Ancient Americans he brings together all of the latest research, and the results of his own travels throughout North an South America, to provide a new, fascin...

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