The Years of Rice and Salt Audiobook (Free)
- Bronson Pinchot
- 26 h 1 min
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2015-05-05
Summary:
It’s the fourteenth hundred years, and probably one of the most apocalypticevents in human history is set to occur-the approaching from the Dark Loss of life. Historyteaches us a third of Europe’s human population was demolished. But imagine if theplague experienced wiped out 99 percent of the populace rather? How would the globe havechanged? That is a look at the history that could have been-a background thatstretches across hundreds of years, a history that views dynasties and nations rise andcrumble, a history that spans horrible famine and about The Many years of Grain and Salt wonderful development. Theseare the many years of rice and sodium.
That is a universe where in fact the first ship to attain the New Worldtravels over the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from westto east. That is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is activated by theworld’s greatest scientific minds-in India. This is a universe where Buddhismand Islam will be the most important and employed religions, and Christianity ismerely a traditional footnote.
Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers andphilosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson renders an immensely rich tapestry.Rewriting background and probing the most profound issues as only he can,Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the area of religion, culture,force, and even love on such an Earth. In the steppes of Asia to the shoresof the Traditional western Hemisphere, from age Akbar to the present and beyond,this is actually the stunning tale of the creation of a fresh world.
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