Books written by Ronald Wright
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A Short History of Progress
Writing with great wit and insight, the award-winning author of A Scientific Romance interrogates the notion of progress in the twentieth century, exploring the price paid for all of the wonders of modern technology and concluding that a ...
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Stolen Continents: The Indian Story
This book tells the Indians' story, one of plague and invasion that crippled great civilizations and killed one fifth of the human race.
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Henderson's Spear
My thanks to the following for generosity with their time and many helpful suggestions: Shirley Wright, Amanda McConnell, Mike Poole, Rose Corser, Robert Suggs, Robert Koenig, Inga Clendinnen, Greg Dening, Bengt Danielsson, Rod Vickers, ...
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Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico
Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico
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The Gold Eaters: A Novel
Based closely on real historical events, The Gold Eaters draws on Ronald Wright’s imaginative skill as a novelist and his deep knowledge of South America to bring alive an epic struggle that laid the foundations of the modern world.
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Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great American cultures — Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois.
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Stolen Continents: the New World Through Indian Eyes
In this seminal book, Ronald Wright tells the story of the people who already lived in the Americas at the time of the European conquest.
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A Short History of Progress
17 For the Spanish, disease was a better weapon than a neutron bomb because just enough Amerindians survived to work the mines.18 The Aztec and Inca treasures were only a down payment on all the gold and silver that would flow across ...
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What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order
The country's origins and diverse history, the self-perceptions and beliefs of what this country was, is, and has become as well as its standing in the world are examined and discussed in relation to current events and international affairs ...
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On Fiji Islands
"The story of Fiji is rare - a modern nation and an archipelago of cultures that flourish despite the invasion of colonizers and the modern world ... Ronald Wright explores...
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Henderson's Spear
"Henderson is a Man of Empire.
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Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico
" -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).
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Henderson's Spear: A Novel
Bloodshot eyes travelled up from my photo to my face and back several times, not hurrying over my chest on the way. ... on Robson advertising its sale withNowIsthe Winter of Our Discount Tents, a slogan no English prof could resist.
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Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
Traveling through Peru, tracing the history of the Incas from their royal cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu to their mythic origin in Lake Titicaca, Ronald Wright explores a country of contrasts—between Spanish and Indian, past and present ...
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A Scientific Romance
In this critically acclaimed and bestselling novel, Ronald Wright has fashioned a story for our times, an unforgettable chronicle of love, plague and time travel in the tradition of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale.
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Stolen Continents: Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
An international bestseller, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This fascinating volume chronicles the conquest and survival of five great American cultures—in their own words.
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Stolen Continents 10th Anniversary Edition
This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great indigenous cultures—Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois.
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Stolen Continents: Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great indigenous cultures--Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois.
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What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order
A fresh, passionate look at the past and future of the world’s most powerful nation, What Is America? will reframe the debate about our neighbour and ourselves.
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Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico
Ronald Wright travelled through the old territories of the Maya (the jungles and mountains of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico) to explore the ancient roots of their culture and to map out what has survived.