

The World Made New
Author: Marc Aronson
Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
Unabridged: 1 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/30/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, History, World History
Author: Marc Aronson
Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
Unabridged: 1 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/30/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, History, World History
Marc Aronson is the acclaimed author of Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert, which earned four starred reviews. He is also the author of Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the ALA’s first Robert F. Sibert Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. He has won the LMP award for editing and has a PhD in American history from New York University. Marc is a member of the full-time faculty in the graduate program of the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife, Marina Budhos, and sons. You can visit him online at MarcAronson.com.
Published by the respected National Geographic Society, The World Made New provides an informative and well-designed introduction to the Age of Discovery, particularly in relation to the North American continent. Published in 2007, the authors take a measured stance when addressing the more speculat......more
I am having a lot of trouble and issues with this book. Been thinking about it for days and days now. This title has made it to the Midwinter Notables discussion list so there will be a public discussion/debate over. Here's what I posted on child_lit: I am writing in quite a degree of bafflement over......more
This rather thin volume contains a somewhat original view of the importance of late 15th century exploration by Europeans, but is certainly not exhaustive, or even definitive. Some statements, particularly concerning American population as this era commenced, seem somewhat light on scholarship by co......more