1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Free Audiobook Download by Charles C. Mann

The Americas were not the pristine, idyllic wilderness that we have come to claim. Humans have lived in North America for at least 50,000 years. Christopher Columbus and his contemporaries were not the first Europeans to see this land.

For many of us the Americas were discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But how much do we really know about those that inhabited these continents before Columbus arrived? Charles C. Mann's book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus documents the history of the indigenous peoples of North America and South America. In this audiobook you will experience a fascinating 10,000-year history through the eyes of native people and storytellers from around the world, who describe their own cultures as they existed before European colonization.

The story follows the history of the Americas from the time that people first reached North America, in 1492, to the present.

[Darrell Dennis] is a narrator with a voice that I could listen to all day long. He has the perfect voice for this book and it made me feel like I was listening to someone who actually experienced what happened during the time of 1491. The story shares many events throughout history, but it's mostly focused on North and South America before Columbus visited. This is one of the best books about pre-Columbian America that I have ever read.

In 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann tells the story of how we came to be here in North America and how the entire world looked before Columbus arrived. This book is a history education that starts off with a bang as he uses black-and-white drawings to depict what Europe was like before everyone started moving around and exploring. He then delves into the new insights that archaeology has provided us with, such as the information about North America's early inhabitants and how different people came to populate it. This book is an easy read for people who are interested in learning about this momentous discovery.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a non-fiction book about the pre-Columbian history of North America. Written by Charles C. Mann, Mann uses mostly primary sources - archaeology, oral histories, and historical documents from the time to examine what life was like before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas. The book details how scholars have been able to piece together a relatively well informed picture of what life was like during this "pre-contact" era. 1491 offers up evidence that humans existed in North America long before contact with Europeans and that they had stayed in one place for an extended period of time without massive shifts and changes in their culture.