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<p><b>An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller <i>HHhH</i>, Laurent Binet's <i>Civilizations</i> is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonization, empire-building, and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting writers.</b><br><br>Freydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers setting out to the south. They meet local tribes, exchange skills, are taken prisoner, and get as far as Panama. But nobody ultimately knows what became of them.<br><br>Fast forward five hundred years to 1492 and we're reading the journals of Christopher Columbus, mid-Atlantic on his own famous voyage of exploration to the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. But he and his men are taken captive by Incas. Even as their suffering increases, his faith in his superiority, and in his mission, is unshaken.<br><br>Thirty years later, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in Europe in the ships stolen from Columbus. He finds a continent divided by religious and dynastic quarrels, the

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Author

Laurent Binet; Sam Taylor; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374600822

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (509 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14