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Immensely learned and ambitiousseam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brioThis is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise. Literary Review To imagine to see that which is not there is the startling ability that has fue
1492: Not Simply the YearColumbus Sailed the Ocean Blue . . . In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern worldback to that single fateful year when everything changed.
Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To the author,