“Examines world history from the unique perspective of environments and ecosystems . . . from ice, tundra, and desert societies to sea and oceanic cultures.” —Library Journal In this book, Felipe Fernández-Armesto redefines the ...

In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci.

This book is about encounters between cultures and the outreach of ambitions, imaginations, efforts, and innovations that made them possible.

Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.

Civilizations is a radical cultural history of mankind's relationship with natue, which advances a new understanding of what it means to be civilised. Fernández-Armesto is the author of ten books, including Millennium, Truth and Columbus.

Intended as an antidote to potted biographies and piecemeal reconstructions of his voyages, this volume draws on judicious selections from Christopher Columbus's own writings--chronologically arranged, and translated into idiomatic English- ...

Discusses the character of Columbus in the context of the world of the late fifteenth century.

Chronologically Arranged, the format of this book nevertheless allows you to start at the beginning or dip in at any point.

In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the ...

"In Near a Thousand Tables, Oxford historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history - ecology as well as gastronomy.