1492: The Year the Four Corners of the Earth Collided

A study of events of 1492 and how they affect the global community of the world of today.

The world would end in 1492-so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began.

In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe t...