Civilizations
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Author
Contributors
Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
ISBN
9780374600815, 0374600813
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780374600815, 0374600813
Notes
General Note
Originally published in French in 2019 by Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle, France, as Civilizations.
Description
An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history by Laurent Binet, the author of the international bestseller HHhH. Civilisations is the world as we don't know it- set at different points in history, it links stories about characters in different places and times, all hungry to explore and to acquire power. Freydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers setting out southwards. They meet local tribes, exchange skills, are taken prisoner, and get as far as Panama. But nobody ultimately knows what became of them. Fast forward five hundred years to 1492 and we're reading the journals of Christopher Columbus, mid-Atlantic on his own famous voyage of exploration to The Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. But he and his men are taken captive by Incas. Even as their sufferings increase his faith in his superiority, and in his mission, is unshaken. Thirty years later, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in Europe in the ships stolen from Columbus. He finds a continent divided by religious and dynastic quarrels, the Spanish Inquisition, Luther's Reformation, capitalism, the miracle of the printing press, endless warmongering between the ruling monarchies, and constant threat from the Turks. But most of all he finds downtrodden populations ready for revolution. Fortunately, he has a recent bestseller as a guidebook to acquiring power - Machiavelli's The Prince. The stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and Aztecs, and for a great war that will change history forever. Civilisations is nothing less than a strangely believable counter-factual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonisation, empire-building and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting writers.
Language
Translated from the French.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Binet, L., & Taylor, S. (2021). Civilizations (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Binet, Laurent and Sam Taylor. 2021. Civilizations. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Binet, Laurent and Sam Taylor. Civilizations Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Binet, Laurent,, and Sam Taylor. Civilizations First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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