xiv, 197 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Preface -- The boundaries of nature -- A new ecology -- The landscape of history -- The theater of insects -- Notes on sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary:
This book reveals how Europeans and Native Americans thought about a natural world undergoing rapid change in the century following the historic voyages of Christopher Columbus. Through use of oral history and folklore maintained for centuries by Native Americans, as well as original use of manuscript atlases, paintings that depict on-the-spot European representations of nature, and texts that circulated imperfectly across the ocean, he reveals how the encounter between the old world and the new changed the fate of millions of individuals