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Title: Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan by Jean Fritz, Anthony Bacon Venti ISBN: 0-698-11638-0 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gets you thinking outside the box
Comment: I only recently discovered Jean Fritz, and with each of her books that my daughter and I read together, I continue to be more and more impressed with her writing skills. She has the ability to bring history and historical figures to life and look at events with a fresh perspective.
Around the World in a Hundred Years tells the stories of how Europeans came to discover some of the less well known parts of the earth. Maybe it's because Ms. Fritz grew up in China, but she has a sensitivity to non-western points of view, and is able to address these events from the point of view of the 'discoverees' as well as the 'discoverers'.
More importantly, she is able to help the reader make those critical connections between events that helps bring make them understandable. I highly recommend this book!
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but...
Comment: This book is humorous and includes, in my opinion, appropriate treatment of some negative aspects of the explorers (such as the slave trade). However, I have found subtle bias which may offend some Christians. The burning of the library at Alexandria is blamed on Christians, although this is not conclusively proven. Fritz writes "Christians did not believe in scholarship. They thought it was sacrilegious to be curious." This is a gross overstatement at best. In listing people and things sent with Columbus to the New World on a second trip, Fritz groups "six priests... in addition to fifty horses and a pack of dogs trained to attack hostile natives if necessary." Interesting that priests are listed with horses and attack dogs. Aside from these kinds of things, the book is interesting. I intend to "edit" when and if I read this to my children.
Rating: 5
Summary: A lively history of the Age of Exploration--warts and all.
Comment: This is the first popular book I have seen on the Age of Exploration that lets the reader in on important details that have been evaluated honestly in scholarly works for decades, but which our more traditional popularizers have tended to gloss over in favor of the notion that the Europeans who led the continent's conquest of the world were all both unstoppable and righteous.
(See John H. Perry's "Establishment of the European Hegemony, 1415-1715" (HarperCollins, 1961) for a good example of a more scholarly work that also includes all the warts in its accounts of the famous Age.)
It's a lively, easy-to-read book, and it does a good job of telling both the heroic and the not-so-heroic aspects of the story.
Well done.
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Title: Explorers Who Got Lost by Diane Sansevere-Dreher, Ed Renfro ISBN: 0812520386 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Exploration and Conquest : The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620 by Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro ISBN: 0688154743 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 25 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz, Margot Tomes ISBN: 0698115805 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Discovery of the Americas : From Prehistory Through the Age of Columbus by Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro ISBN: 0688115128 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 20 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz, Tomie dePaola, Tomie dePaola ISBN: 0698116240 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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