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1492: The Year Our World Began
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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Description for 1492: The Year Our World Began
Paperback. A vivid new book from an established and bestselling historian Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 286.
‘Fernández-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other world historians have given us. He has performed an amazing feat of portraying the world as one place before it had yet become one place ... This is popular history at its best: grounded in research, insightfully critical, and written with grace' Literary Review ‘Filled with marvels and sensations rich in description and replete with anecdote ... A compendium of delights' The Times The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. ... Read more
‘Fernández-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other world historians have given us. He has performed an amazing feat of portraying the world as one place before it had yet become one place ... This is popular history at its best: grounded in research, insightfully critical, and written with grace' Literary Review ‘Filled with marvels and sensations rich in description and replete with anecdote ... A compendium of delights' The Times The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408809501
SKU
V9781408809501
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About Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto was born in London in 1950. His books include Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan, The Times Atlas of World Exploration, Columbus, Edward Gibbon's Atlas of the World, Barcelona: a Thousand Years of the City's Past, Millennium and Food: A History. Translations of his work have appeared in twenty languages and he has been shortlisted for numerous prizes. ... Read more
Reviews for 1492: The Year Our World Began
‘Filled with marvels and sensations rich in description and replete with anecdote ... A compendium of delights'
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
‘Fernández-Armesto's chapters on the western Mediterranean are models of how to write popular history: accessible, provocative and full of telling detail'
Mail on Sunday
‘Fernández-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other ... Read more
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
‘Fernández-Armesto's chapters on the western Mediterranean are models of how to write popular history: accessible, provocative and full of telling detail'
Mail on Sunday
‘Fernández-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other ... Read more