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Rediscovery Of North America
Barry Holstun Lopez
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Hardback. Five hundred years after Columbus' landing in America, the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and Crossing Open Ground delivers a devastating assessment of the explorer's legacy and takes the first step toward its redemption. Series: The Thomas D. Clark lectures. Num Pages: 66 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 6. Weight in Grams: 195.
" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of much of two continents, reverberates in our history down to the present century. So contends prize-winning writer Barry Lopez in this beautifully written book. "The quest for personal possessions," he observes, "was to be, from the outset, a series of raids, irresponsible and criminal, a spree, in which an end to it was never visible... in which an end to it had no meaning." In this luminous essay, written five hundred years after the Spanish conquest, Lopez ... Read more
" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of much of two continents, reverberates in our history down to the present century. So contends prize-winning writer Barry Lopez in this beautifully written book. "The quest for personal possessions," he observes, "was to be, from the outset, a series of raids, irresponsible and criminal, a spree, in which an end to it was never visible... in which an end to it had no meaning." In this luminous essay, written five hundred years after the Spanish conquest, Lopez ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
66
Condition
New
Series
The Thomas D. Clark lectures
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813117423
SKU
V9780813117423
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