books by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto     books:       The Malaspina Expedition 1789 to 1794: Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina : Cadiz to Panama ...1 review Hakluyt Society, 2002 Malaspina - an un underservedly neglected navigator This is the first volume of three being published by the Hakluyt Society ( www.hakluyt.com ) on the 18 C expedition of Malaspina for the Spanish crown to the American colonies with the aim of fixing frontiers, improving scientific and geographical knowledge, and generating maps. A splendid work of scholarship and a great read!             Civilizations16 reviews The Free Press, 2004 A worthy companion to MILLENIUM I admit that I have every known work published by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Almost all deserve that coveted five star award (exception being TRUTH). The current work is more than a history of various groups of peoples we conventiently call civilizations - culture would be apt. The originality of this work is its premise, namely that civilizations are to evaluated on their reaction to their ...             Columbus1 review Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Oxford University Press, USA, 1991 A looney expands the world To my knowledge, this is the most rigorous biography of Columbus so far. It is basically an unknown story, since what they teach us in school is almost all of it lies and myths, for example that Queen Elizabeth sold her jewells to finance the first trip, or that everybody in Columbus' time believed the Earth was flat. By any standard, Columbus was a bit of a lunatic who probably also suffered ...             Before Columbus (New Studies in Medieval History)1 review Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Palgrave Macmillan, 1987 Columbus as a logical outcome It is hard to use, in the same sentence, logic and a man who believed both in the basic sphericity of the earth and the existence of the Earthly Paradise. But, all hero-villain dichotomies aside, we shall always be confronted with the fact that it was Columbus who started the inexorable process that produced America as we know it, to the exclusion of all who may have preceded him to these ...             Pathfinders: A Global Hisotry of Exploration8 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Excellent! I only write reviews for books I like, and this one I liked a lot. An excellent overview of global exploration. The author looks at pretty much every culture on the planet, and how each searched the world around it, and how humanity spread and intermingled. This is extremely readable lay history, transforming much of the dry narrative we encountered in history texts at school into engaging story. ...             The World: A History, Volume 1 (to 1500) (The World: A History)1 review Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Prentice Hall, 2006 Now I know my History! Well, I bought this book for my History class. You really have to give this author some credit. He wrote the whole damn book by himself. Now that is quite a feat to undertake. Most textbooks have multiple authors, but Felipe Fernadez Armesto has the audacity to do it all by himself. That very respectable. And he did a pretty darn good job, if I might say so. I like how he included lots of maps ...             The World: A History, Volume 2 (since 1300) (The World: A History)1 review Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Prentice Hall, 2006 Great book The book was a little slow getting to me but when I got it, the book was in excellent shape and it still had the cd in it which I needed. The book is for my class that I needed and is interesting.             Columbus and the conquest of the impossible (The Great explorers)1 review Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Saturday Review Press, 1974 A highly readable debunking While not an attack on the historical Columbus or his achievements, this volume is a highly readable and enjoyable debunking of many of the myths that have grown up about Columbus: highly recommended.             Humankind : A Brief History2 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, 2004 The history about WHAT humankind is... This book deals with how mankind has tried to define humankind. Our we human because our body is different from other animals? But apes are so close to us when it comes to DNA. Because we have a soul or mind? Can we even prove those things exist? Because we have culture and works of art? But don't machines now write stories and don't chimps paint? Will we ever find something to define us ...             The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 15883 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Oxford University Press, USA, 1988 A much-needed antidote to common Armada confusions Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's book is a well-written, succinct, and thoroughly documented book that casts the Armada confrontation in a more balanced light. He does not, as a previous reviewer seems to claim, offer up some revisionist argument about how the Spanish Armada actually won; Fernandez-Armesto simply notes that the David-Goliath aura of the battle is grossly inaccurate, that Spain's and ...             Near a Thousand Tables : A History of Food12 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Free Press, 2003 An Intriguing Bood A fascinating and erudite account of our prehistoric and historic relationship with food. The book discusses such things as herding versus hunting, sea weed, cannibalism... etc. I highly recommend this page-turner for its delightful insights into our most treasured habit -- eating!             The Americas Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2004             Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America7 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008 A long overdue biography Felipe has done an excellent job of writing a concise and beautifully articulate account on Amerigo, the man who gave his name to America. However, I think the subtitle should perhaps be- The man who finagled getting his name stamped upon America. This biography offers a wealth of information about Renaissance Florence, Seville and the famous characters of history that many know; yet, few ...             Food1 review Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Pan Books, 2002 Good but lacking This book is a good read and will make you think twice about world history again. But with it's 250 pages it is too short and therefor it seems unfinished. It's a glimpse of what could have been cause you get the sense food has an even bigger and more important history.             Ideas That Change The World11 reviews Felipe and Cathy Meeus Fernandez-Armesto DK Publishing, Inc., 2003 "coffee table" book for the mind This is a "coffee table" book of ideas to spend a few minutes with at a time rather than a book to sit and read from cover to cover. As a kid I used to read through the World Book Encyclopedia; this book provides the same kind a service and sometimes excitement for selected important ideas that have "changed the world". Brief, concise, pointed sketches of important ideas are on target for their ...             The Americas: A Hemispheric History6 reviews Modern Library, 2003 Interesting read - although not definite As the author says at the end of the book, this study of the full hemisphere - what is has in common and what trends set North and South apart - is quite new. It is a refreshing read, one which gives a good perspective and questions rightfully the current cliche about North ever-lasting superiority vs South. The first half of the book is quite educating in its history of the South domination ...             The World: A History, Combined Volume (The World: A History)2 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Prentice Hall, 2006 Great style, quirky, skewed, original First of all, whatever you think of the way he pursues history, the author is without question a great writer and a great mind, and this distinguishes the book from most of the history texts used secondary and university settings. It is entertaining and incisive. The typical textbook written by the committee/groupthink method pales in comparison with regard to style and sophistication. ...             Truth : A History and Guide for the Perplexed12 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Bantam Books, 1999 A introductory history to an important philosophical topic This is not a book of philosophy, but rather philosophical history. It is an extremely fast survey of philosophical thought through the millennia of human history all around the world in a broad variety of cultures. Experts in any of the fields covered in this book will surely find their specialty too cursorily treated, but the point of the book is not the details of the points made. The issue ...             Millennium23 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Scribner, 1995 Not a book for high school students... even if they are in AP history, as evidenced by the previous 3 reviewers. For anyone else who wants a comprehensive yet readable overview of world history (and this really is WORLD history), this is an excellent starting place. And this is not a dry retelling of events. There are not a lot of details and footnotes. What the author does is transmit a wisdom and worldview (for example, that at the ...             Civilizations4 reviews Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Pan Books, 2001 Good Book by A Brilliant Synthesizer Fernandez-Armesto's venture into environmental history extends his reputation as the leading scholar producing large-scale history. In "Civilizations" he classifies civilizations according to the general type of environment in which they arose, thrived and (often) declined. He then analyzes their ability to adapt to those conditions, as well as exploring other influences. 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