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CIVILISATIONS - LAURENT BINET KARTONIERT (TB)

c.1000 AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland 1492: Christopher Columbus does
not discover America 1531: the Incas invade Europe Civilisations is the world as we don't know
it: set at different points in history it links stories about characters in different places
and times  all hungry to explore and to acquire power. Freydis is a woman warrior and leader of
a band of Viking explorers setting out southwards. 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 sufferings increase 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. Civilisations is nothing less
than a strangely believable counter-factual history of the modern world  fizzing with ideas
about colonisation  empire-building and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an
electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting writers.

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