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From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Apr 14, 17:41 -0400
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Apr 14, 17:41 -0400
Has anyone heard of this book?
It's subtitled "Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies", by Nicolas Wey Gomez. I was at a workshop for potential book writers, and an editor from MIT press pulled this out as a lesson in what not to publish. It has tons of full color maps and is something like 900 pages long. She said it was a "revisionist" history of Columbus, based on geographical knowledge of his time. She said it marketed for something like $42.
I thought...."hmmm that sounds like it might actually be interesting". So, I hung around until after the workshop and went up to her and asked if I could take a look at it. She was getting ready to go, and I handed it back to her, but she said "No, you can keep it, I don't want to haul it back."
So a free book that has some new slant on Columbus. This should be interesting (I think...or perhaps I was doing her a favor??).
John H.
