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![]() ![]() ![]() Mann not only talked to countless scientists and researchers he visited the places he writes about, and as a consequence, the book has a marvelously wide-ranging yet personal feel as we follow Mann from one far-flung corner of the world to the next. Building on the groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby (author of The Columbian Exchange and, I’m proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer), Mann has written nothing less than the story of our world: how a planet of what were once several autonomous continents is quickly becoming a single, “globalized” entity. With his follow-up, 1493, Mann has taken it to a new, truly global level. It’s exhaustively researched but so wonderfully written that it’s anything but exhausting to read. I’m a big fan of Charles Mann’s previous book 1491, in which he provides a sweeping and provocative examination of North and South America prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Roosevelt Naval History Prize and Mayflower, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history and one of the New York Times' ten best books of the year. ![]() Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Stand In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award Sea of Glory, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on 1493 by Charles C. ![]()
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