
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Title: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Author: Charles C Mann ISBN: 9781400040063 Publisher: Knopf Published: 2005 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Good Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. B 1618368 Publisher Description: A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Char