About this title: Five hundred years after Columbus' landing in America, the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and Crossing Open Ground delivers a devastating assessment of the explorer's legacy and takes the first step toward its redemption.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780679740995ISBN:0679740996
Description: Acceptable. Former Library Book and/or book has writing/highlighting * If you can deal with the writing/markings, this is a great deal! * read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Date Published: 6/18/1991
ISBN-13:9780813117423ISBN:0813117429
Description: Good. 0813117429 Ex-library book with usual markings. Clean text. SATISF GNTD + SHIPS W/IN 24 HRS. Sorry, no APO deliveries. Ships in a padded envelope with free tracking. 48, 513r. read more
Edition: Trade Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1992
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 1992. LATER PRINTING. 58 pages. A book, originally presented at the 1990 Thomas D. Clark Lectures, by the 1986 American Book Award winning author of OF WOLVES AND MEN and ARCTIC DREAMS. A fine trade pbk reissue in pictorial soft covers. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: S Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780679740995ISBN:0679740996
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Edge wear and some creasing to hinges. read more
"This short poetic manifesto calls out for a conversation between the people and the land as we rediscover the place called North America. Written in commemoration of 500 years of conquest, The Rediscovery of North America asserts that developing a sense of place requires developing a sense of history. To listen to the land today requires not just an understanding of environmental ills but the genocide and atrocities of colonization which Lopez sees as the root of a troubled American culture. The present has its roots in the past and no better future can be found, no idyllic relationship with the land achieved, without a reckoning with imperialism."
"a great little book first given as a lecture in 1992...if that date strikes a familiar chord remember...when columbus sailed the ocean blue...yes, the 500th year celebrations of that occasion...and lopez asks us the re-discover north america envisioning back through that optic of 500 years...he begins and ends the talk/book on columbus' ships as a way of illustrating what the driving impetus behind the whole venture might have been...he doesn't have to say it and neither do i but what the heck!...greed...expansionism related to greed and all that goes along with it... lopez makes us aware of how in the ensuing time since that "discover" we have tried to make things familiar by renaming them negating what was here and yes...destroying what was in the way...which of course also means revising and forgetting history...but it's not all a downer guys!...hey, it's an invitation to open our eyes and reconsider where and who we are...take responsibility for what happened and realize that there is another way to relate to this land and its people (who while decimated segregated and hidden away are not a "vanished race") among whom we now walk...it's a great book to pass on to others to think about and reconsider again and again...keep in mind...and...since some of us are once again after a lull of 30 or so years thinking about the environment again...it's a good read for those issues...isn't it all connected?!...yes, of course it is...can't avoid that!!!"
"I found this in the trash at Saint Mike's. If I taught a seventh grade history class, this would be the first thing I would have them read. Take twenty minutes to read it. There are problems with this book, but it would be a good introduction to history for a twelve year old. I am confused as to why this is being used as a college text book, but I will leave those thoughts behind and just say that it would be good for the kids as a fast alternative introduction to our normal history lesson."
"Read this in a short afternoon. It was a very enjoyable but a somewhat disturbing read. I already knew that Columbus wasn't the man my teachers taught me about. I didn't know how terrible the conquest of the Americas actually was. It's a good thing we don't rape and pillage like that now."
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