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2011., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 909.4 M281 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult--the "Columbian Exchange"--underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Manila and Mexico City-- where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted--the center of the world. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination"--
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[2008]., A&E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video Call No: DVD 910.9 C726h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The true story of Christopher Columbus was not only one of victorious discovery, it was marked by disaster, accusation, and betrayal. Ten short years after his discovery of the New World, Columbus languished in a Caribbean prison. There, awaiting the gallows, he plotted what he called his 'most treacherous' voyage -- one that ended with the loss of all four of his ships and left Columbus and his crew shipwrecked with little hope of survival.
![Columbus [DVD] (2008). Directed by Anna Thomson. : the lost voyage](/Library/images/~imageCT76359.JPG "Columbus [DVD] (2008). Directed by Anna Thomson. : the lost voyage")
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2005., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: 970.015 D866l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2012., Adult, D&M Publishers Call No: 970.15 H945r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The compelling tale of a rivalry that drove two unlikely explorers to the edge of a new world, informed by groundbreaking new research and superior narrative power. The final decade of the 15th century was pivotal in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward into the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, determined to secure for Spain a more direct route to the riches of the Indies. But as Columbus struggled to capitalize on his momentous discovery of distant landfalls, a troubled Venetian bridge contractor in Spain, on the lam from creditors and remembered as John Cabot, audaciously reinvented himself as an explorer and mounted a rival quest for England. In The Race to the New World, critically acclaimed author Douglas Hunter details the high-stakes race that threatened the precarious power balance of Europe and led both men to the shores of a new world that neither was looking for. With the use of fresh historical evidence, Hunter tells an untold story of the parallel journeys of Columbus and Cabot - two explorers whose interconnected lives are only fully understood together."--Provided by publisher.
