February 2007

Book Note - Before the Dawn: recovering the lost history of our ancestors

Posted by markorton on February 27, 2007 in book reviews

Earlier this year I read Charles Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and was rewarded with another reminder of how thin my understanding of our hemisphere’s history is and how much new knowledge is being added by multiple disciplines. Here was a whole new world to be explored.
Nicholas Wade’s book is another [...]