The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy
- ISBN-10
- 0340533838
- ISBN-13
- 9780340533833
- Category
- America
- Pages
- 453
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Author
- Kirkpatrick Sale
Description
Analysis of Columbus and his discovery of the New World and how it changed the distribution and mixture of life-forms and cultures.
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- 1990
- 453 pages
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- Knopf
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