{"product_id":"85948","title":"Charles Mann - 1493: How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e🔴\u003c\/b\u003e Condition - \u003cb\u003eVery Good 🔴\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of 1491 -- the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas -- a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade  with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in  Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pearls Books n Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67649263567039,"sku":"85948","price":15.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5552\/0703\/files\/9781847082459.jpg?v=1793064587","url":"https:\/\/pearlsbooksfnq.com\/products\/85948","provider":"Pearls Books n Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}