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ON SAVAGE SHORES - CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK KARTO...

A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist
Book of the Year. One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2023. A BBC History
Magazine Book of the Year 2023. One of History Workshop's 'Radical Reads' for 2023. Winner of
the Voltaire Medal. We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when
the 'Old World' encountered the 'New'  when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492.
But  as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book  for tens of
thousands of Aztecs  Maya  Totonacs  Inuit and others - enslaved people  diplomats  explorers 
servants  traders - the reverse was true: they discovered Europe. For them  Europe comprised
savage shores  a land of riches and marvels  yet perplexing for its brutal disparities of
wealth and quality of life  and its baffling beliefs. The story of these Indigenous Americans
abroad is a story of abduction  loss  cultural appropriation  and  as they saw it  of
apocalypse - a story that has largely been absent from our collective imagination of the times.
From the Brazilian king who met Henry VIII to the Aztecs who mocked up human sacrifice at the
court of Charles V  from the Inuk baby who was put on show in a London pub to the mestizo
children of Spaniards who returned 'home' with their fathers  from the Inuit who harpooned
ducks on the Avon river to the many servants employed by Europeans of every rank: here are a
people who were rendered exotic  demeaned  and marginalised  but whose worldviews and cultures
had a profound impact on European civilisation. Drawing on their surviving literature and
poetry and subtly layering European eyewitness accounts against the grain  Pennock gives us a
sweeping account of the Indigenous American presence in  and impact on  early modern Europe.

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