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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 970.01
EAN: 9781400032051
ISBN: 1400032059
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 541
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Sales Rank: 1736
Studio: Vintage
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Rating:  - It's about time
It's about time we shed our Euro-centric views and gave more credit to the indigenous people that were here first. This book is well written and makes use of the research of others. It is nicely organized and collected together in one place. None is original research and not too surprising if you are familar with the field. However if this is new to you then you might be in for a surprise, history is not quite the way you might have been taught. A good quick read, lively, engaging and thought provoking. ... Read More
Rating:  - Book Review
In this beautifully written book Charles C. Mann recollects his journey to old tribal communties in what is now America. This book holds many facts that are amazing and your idea of what the US was like before Columbus will change drastically. Charles Mann tells lost stories of lies and betrayal between the Indians and the early explorers who landed on the coast of America. Many assumptions about what the Indians were like are completely contradicted in this book, although bold at time all of the facts are ... Read More
Rating: - Probably one of my favorite non fiction reads of all time
I will keep this brief and to the point. I read a lot of non-fiction. In fact, one of the reasons I cannot bring myself to read another novel is THIS BOOK. I have gotten more from Mann's 1491 than any other I have read over the last five years--maybe more. I recommend that prospective college/high school students read this and learn.
Rating:  - Overly Ambitious
"1491" is a journalist's look at pre-Columbian America. It is an overly ambitious, oftentimes confusing assortment of fact, theory, archaeology, geography, genetics, anthropology, ethnography and almost every other science and pseudoscience that can be applied to the study of ancient and recent native Americans.
In my opinion, the author would have been far better off to have thoroughly expored a couple of themes rather than to have hop-scotched over the Americas both temporally and geographically. ... Read More
Rating: - Good, but not convincing
One serious problem with this book is that the author is a journalist, not an archaeologist or historian. After getting past this author's distracting writing style, the reader must tread carefully to separate fact from speculation, realism from romanticism. But most readers are neither archaeologist nor historian and must therefore be wary of being led too far afield by some of the romantic notions presented here, such as the Indian (or Native American) influence on the US Constitution and their wholesale revamping ... Read More
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