Ronald Wright, Author . Holt $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6996-9
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.HENDERSON'S SPEARRonald Wright. Holt, $25 (368p) ISBN 0-8050-6996-8Richly imagined...
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Ronald Wright, Author Da Capo Press $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1547-3
Progress can do us in, or so argues British historian Wright as he embarks on a lively if meandering journey through the development and demise of ancient civilizations to determine whether our current one is doomed. By reading the ""black boxes""...
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Ronald Wright, Author Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (451p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1470-9
This impressionistic travel diary portrays the uneducated but spirited modern descendants of the ancient Mayas, Incas and Aztecs, a potentially volatile peasant group suppressed by the European-descended Ladino majority in Latin America. ``Wright...
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Ronald Wright, Author Viking Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80634-8
In little more than a century, Fiji islanders have made the transition from cannibalism to Christianity, from colony to flourishing self-government (1970) in a variegated society. Theirs is a Third World success story; they have accepted some...
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Ronald Wright, Author Grove/Atlantic $22.95 (451p) ISBN 978-1-55584-291-8
While the cultures of the ancient Mayas, Incas and Aztecs are elevated to the status of national icon in Latin America, their modern descendants--barefoot, uneducated, potentially rebellious peasants--are viewed by the Ladino majority (of mixed...
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Ronald Wright, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-395-56500-1
Wright ( Time Among the Maya ) here presents a ``New World'' history, told from the perceived perspective of natives and lambasting the conquering whites, going back to Columbus: Cortes, de Soto, Pizarro, for example, are seen as crass, cruel,...
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Ronald Wright, Author Picador USA $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-18172-7
English-born historian Wright, who lives in Canada, is the author of several celebrated works of nonfiction, including Time Among the Maya and Stolen Continents, but his first novel is such a triumph that it's a wonder he didn't get around to...
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Ronald Wright. Riverhead, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59463-462-8
Wright’s (Henderson’s Spear) latest historical novel tackles the complex and tragic story of Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro and his army of conquistadores, as they ravage and destroy Peru’s Inca civilization in their insatiable hunger for gold...
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