Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness

First published in 1980 Beyond Geography continues to influence and impress its readers. This new edition prepared for the Columbus quincentennial includes a new introduction by T. H. Watkins and a new preface by the author. As the public debates Columbuss legacy it is important for us to learn of the spiritual background of European domination of the Americas for the Europeans who conquered the Americas substituted history for myth as a way of understanding life.