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CIVILISATIONS - LAURENT BINET KARTONIERT (TB)

It's world history. But not as we know it. c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from
Greenland 1492: Columbus does not discover America 1531: the Incas invade Europe Freydis is the
leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama. Nobody knows what became of them.
Five hundred years later  Christopher Columbus is sailing for the Americas  dreaming of gold
and conquest. Even when captured  his faith in his mission is unshaken. Thirty years after that
Atahualpa  the last Inca emperor  arrives in a Europe ready for revolution. Fortunately  he has
a recent guidebook to acquiring power - Machiavelli's The Prince. So  the stage is set for a
Europe ruled by Incas and  when the Aztecs arrive on the scene  for a great war that will
change history forever. 'Binet's best book yet: the work of a major writer just hitting his
stride. A delightful counterfactual novel' ***** - Daily Telegraph

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