Volume 52, Number 19 · December 1, 2005
New World Symphony
By William H. McNeill
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
Knopf, 465 pp., $30.00
Charles C. Mann is a journalist and his new book, while not without flaws, is a journalistic masterpiece: lively, engaging, and full of the latest information about the peoples who lived in the Americas before Columbus joined the two sides of the Atlantic together. Mann draws on wide reading in recent scholarly writing, supplemented by travel to the principal archaeological sites and landscapes involved, as well as by interviews with many of the writers who have challenged older notions about the pre-Columbian past.
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