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Title:
1493 [sound recording] / Charles C. Mann.
ISBN:
9780307913760
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Edition:
Unabridged.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House Audio/Recorded Books, [2011]
℗2011
Physical Description:
14 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Compact disc.
Contents:
In the Homogenocene. Two monuments -- Atlantic Journeys. The tobacco coast ; Evil air -- Pacific Journeys. Shiploads of money (silk for silver, part one) -- Lovesick grass, foreign tubers, and jade rice (silk for silver, part two) -- Europe in the World. The agro-industrial complex ; Black gold -- Africa in the World. Crazy soup ; Forest of fugitives -- Currents of Life. In Bulalacao -- Fighting words -- Globalization in beta.
Summary:
Mann offers a new scientific explanation of the Columbian Exchange of 1493--when Christopher Columbus came to America, bringing thousands of species to new homes across the ocean.
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Performer:
Narrated by Robertson Dean.
OCLC Number:
ocn752803579
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
