On savage shores : how indigenous Americans discovered Europe
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
970.00497/DODDS PENNOCK,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781524749262, 1524749265 :, 1524749265, 9781524749262
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
Why words matter -- Introduction -- Slavery -- Go-betweens -- Kith and kin -- The stuff of life -- Diplomacy -- Spectacle and curiosity -- Afterword
"A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492."--