Stolen Continents: The Indian Story
- ISBN-10
- 0712657339
- ISBN-13
- 9780712657334
- Series
- Stolen Continents
- Category
- America
- Pages
- 424
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Ronald Wright
Description
Europe's discovery and conquest of the Americas is told as a great saga of achievement from the European point of view. This book tells the Indians' story, one of plague and invasion that crippled great civilizations and killed one fifth of the human race.
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- 2005
- 430 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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