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A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he is the recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. His 1491 won the National Academies Communication Award for the best book of the year. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Preceded by. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a nonfiction book by Charles C. Mann first published in 2011. [1] It covers the global effects of the Columbian Exchange, following Columbus's first landing in the Americas, that led to our current globalized world civilization.
Mainz 1491 Titlepage. Fruits of Paradise. Hortus sanitatis 1491. The Hortus Sanitatis (also written Ortus; Latin for The Garden of Health ), a Latin natural history encyclopaedia, [1] was published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, Germany in 1491. [2] It describes species in the natural world along with their medicinal uses and modes of preparation.
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1491 (disambiguation) 1491 (MCDXCI) was a common year. 1491 may also refer to: 1491 (musical), 1969 musical by Meredith Willson. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 2005 non-fiction book by American author Charles C. Mann. 1491 Balduinus, outer main-belt asteroid. 1491s, Native America sketch comedy troupe.
1491 is a musical centered around Christopher Columbus before his voyage to discover the New World. [1] Music and lyrics are by American composer and playwright Meredith Willson. It was Willson's final musical. The book was by Willson and Richard Morris with additional material by Ira Barmak and was based on an idea by Ed Ainsworth.
