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008			210331s2021 nyu 000 f eng
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050	0	0	_aPQ2702.I57 _bC5813 2021
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100	1		_aBinet, Laurent, _eauthor. _9114178
240	1	0	_aCivilizations. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aCivilizations /
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2021.
300			_a310 pages ; _c22 cm
500			_aOriginally published in French in 2019 by Editions Grasset et Fasquelle, France, as Civilizations.
505	0		_aPart one: The saga of Freydis Eriksdottir -- Part two: The journal of Christopher Columbus (fragments) -- Part three: The chronicles of Atahualpa -- Part four: The adventures of Cervantes.
520			_aAn ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history. Freydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers setting out to the south. 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 suffering increases, 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.
600	0	0	_aAtahualpa, _d-1533 _vFiction. _9115580
600	1	0	_aCervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, _d1547-1616 _vFiction. _992899
650		0	_aIncas _zEurope _vFiction. _9115581
655		7	_aAlternative histories (Fiction) _2lcgft _9115582
700	1		_aTaylor, Sam, _d1970- _etranslator. _9115583
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