Ronald Wright è un autore canadese la cui opera spazia tra viaggi, storia e narrativa. La sua saggistica, incluso il bestseller Stolen Continents, è stata ampiamente riconosciuta e lodata da importanti pubblicazioni. Il suo debutto narrativo, A Scientific Romance, ha ottenuto anch'esso un significativo plauso della critica, vincendo prestigiosi premi ed essendo selezionato come libro dell'anno da diverse testate.
Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yet managed.
Ronald Wright's skills as an ethnologist, political historian, and travel writer have found an ideal outlet an excellent book.' The Independent
Inspiring a documentary featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall, A Short History of Progress examines the downside of human advancement
Henderson is a man of empire. He has seen the world ebb and flow. When he dies, he leaves behind a treasure trove of objects. To his grand-daughter Liv, he has always been a shadowy figure, until she discovers his diaries.
Europe's discovery and conquest of the Americas is told as a great saga of achievement from the European point of view. This book tells the Indians' story, one of plague and invasion that crippled great civilizations and killed one fifth of the human race.
»Eine spannende, romantische Hommage an die klassischen Zukunftsromane, ein zeitkritisches Abenteuer, bemerkenswert klug und elegant.« Frankenpost London, kurz vor der Jahrtausendwende. Dr. David Lambert, erhält die Nachricht, daß H. G. Wells’ berühmte Zeitmaschine zurückkehrt. Die Reise führt ihn ins London des Jahres 2500. Die Stadt ist von tropischem Dschungel überwuchert, Tukane und Pumas hausen in den Ruinen, in der Themse tummeln sich Piranhas und Haie, die Stadt ist menschenleer. Was ist geschehen? Der Archäologe Lambert sammelt unter dem Schutt der Ruinen Puzzlestein für Puzzlestein, und er beginnt zu ahnen, wie die menschliche Zivilisation einst unterging ... »Wright läßt die Klischees der gängigen Katrastrophen-SF hinter sich. Die Antwort ist viel banaler, deshalb aber nicht weniger erschreckend. Denn die Saat für die Ernte des Jahres 2500 liegt 1999, beim Abflug des Zeitreisenden, schon lange im Boden ...« (Matthias Kringe in ›TV-Highlights‹)
Die Geschichte der Eroberung Amerikas und der bis heute spürbaren Folgen aus der Sicht der indianischen Völker.
Describes the culture and daily life of the modern Maya, and discusses the land of the ancient Maya
The author recounts his travels through the two worlds of Peru--from the remains of the Inca Empire to the emerging modern nation of economic and social pressures