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Good reading, but saddening. The treatment of indigenous people is horrifying: from outright murder to the missionaries doing their thing. The domination by the white Europeans, trying to make everywhere look like English countryside... bringing plants and animals from Europe and Darwin reports invasive species already taking over. And the extinctions that result.

Perhaps when civilization crashes, this book will be a good description of "the beginning of the end". ]]>