American science journalist and author — author of 1491 (on pre-Columbian Americas), 1493 (on the Columbian Exchange), and The Wizard and the Prophet (on Norman Borlaug and William Vogt) — who writes the best popular science and history for general audiences.
Creates the revisionist picture of the pre-Columbian Americas — 1491's account (that the Americas in 1491 were more populated, more sophisticated, and more ecologically managed than the empty wilderness of the traditional account) transformed popular understanding of indigenous American civilizations.
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