“What was the New World like at the time of Columbus?” Nomadic Indians and virgin landscapes That thesis could be summarized in a question that Mann read in an article in a technical journal in 1992: So, it’s not very surprising that his book has the feel of several long magazine stories packaged together under a single thesis. Indeed, at many points in 1491, Mann describes encounters he had with archeologists and visits he made to ancient sites while carrying out magazine assignments. But he had specialized in writing magazine pieces on scientific subjects for such publications as Fortune, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, Science, the Atlantic Monthly and Wired. Mann had co-authored a few books on science and technology. Prior to publishing 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus in 2006, Charles C.
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