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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Start date
August 9, 2005
Finish date
September 9, 2011
Discussion
Book Club 2011
Discussion leader
Betsy
Why we're reading this
because this book is all about our country and history repeats itself so i want to nominate this book.

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Patricrk patrick
Jan 30, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: history, science
What would the world look like if 95% of the people died over a one year period say 30 years ago. That is the world that the settlers of New England found. A landscape where the people who had lived there for a thousand years and had shaped the land to their needs and desires had lost so much population that they could no longer maintain the land. The same is true of the Amazon river basin and the highlands of Peru. Charles Mann tries to recreate the Americas before disease had drastically reduc ...more
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Clay
Jul 10, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: non-fiction
Eye-opening read on Pre-Columbian Americas.
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Edie Kestenbaum
Aug 06, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: books-read-2015
This book was fascinating in content and writing style, but it needs more input from present-day indigenous peoples.
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Nydia “Cookie”
Dec 15, 2008 rated it it was ok
Libyrinths
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Shawn
May 22, 2009 marked it as to-read
Shelves: non-fiction, history, local-library
Chris
Oct 12, 2009 marked it as to-read
Gaijinmama
Jan 27, 2010 marked it as to-read
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Jenny
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Helen
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Shelves: fields-modern-europe
Mitchell Friedman
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Shelley
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Ryan
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Kathy
Jul 31, 2014 rated it really liked it
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Mosca
Jan 05, 2015 marked it as tbr
Robert
Oct 07, 2018 marked it as waiting-on-the-bookshelf
Shelves: history, america, latin-america, indigenous-peoples
Cadmus
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