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Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers. Charles manns new book, with its ambitious title, is cheerfully eclectic rather than doctrinaire. Mann radically alters our understanding of the americas before the arrival of columbus in 1492. In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and.
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