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Highlights
- 1492: Not Simply the YearColumbus Sailed the Ocean Blue . . .In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto traces key elements of the modern worldback to that single fateful year when everything changed.
- Author(s): Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
- 352 Pages
- History, World
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Fernandez-Armesto presents a global look at the year when everything changed and the modern world was born.Book Synopsis
1492: Not Simply the YearColumbus Sailed the Ocean Blue . . .In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto traces key elements of the modern worldback to that single fateful year when everything changed.
Review Quotes
"In this admirable history, Fernández-Armesto has written a book of travels not unlike those of Marco Polo, filled with marvels and sensations, rich in description and replete with anecdote. 1492 is a compendium of delights." -- The Times (London)
In his stimulating new book, Fernandez-Armesto offers a model of how to write popular history: accessible, provocative and full of telling detail. (4 stars) -- Mail on Sunday (London)
"Fernandez-Armesto's narrative fluidity, not to mention an ability to turn a phrase, converts facts into context in an attractively readable manner.... Surveying the planet entire in 1492, Fernández-Armesto brilliantly sweeps a startling breadth of history into his unified narrative." -- Booklist
"Fernández-Armesto challenges some long-standing historical thinking.... The compiled information adds immensely to the understanding of world that ended and began in 1492.... 1492 changes our view of history." -- San Antonio Express-News