cam a22 4500 357300343 CHVBK 20201006160104.0 m | | cr || |||||||| 160210s2015 xx |||||||||| 00 |eng d 978-1-910901-13-7 (RERO)R008361686 DIVIBIB RERO vsbcvb s1an rero Harrison John (RERO)A013098938 cre 1519 A Journey to the End of Time John Harrison [Lieu de publication non identifié] Perseus Book Group 2015 1 e-Book (368 S.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier When Hernan Cortes met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact between the peoples of continental America and Europe. The Spanish found cities larger and better run than any in Europe, and pyramids greater than Egypt's. The Aztecs believed time was running down and they lived in the final age of the world. Many Spaniards believed Christ's millennium was approaching, and God's revelation of Americas had opened the final act: the conversion of the remote races of the earth. After the Day of Judgement God's experiment with man was over. The laboratory, the physical world, would be destroyed. Both cultures were acting out the last days. Halfway through researching this book John Harrison had a scan which told him he would not live to write it ; he was seeing out his own days. The Aztec people were concerned with the transitory nature of worldly things ; some of their rulers were revered as much for their philosophical poetry as their conquests. John Harrison follows Cortes's route along the Mexican coast and across country to modern Mexico City, home of the Aztecs. A journey within journeys to the end of time, the book becomes a meditation on time, on mortality and self, from a modern master of travel writing. His approach is thorough and his excitement contagious' --The Independent on Sunday Auch als Druckausg. vorhanden http://www.onleihe.de/wallis/frontend/mediaInfo,55-0-400852917-100-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html Accès réservé - Netzabhängiger Zugriff BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Metadata rights reserved rero RERO RE11001 RE11001 RE110010018 - - RERO 100 1- Harrison John (RERO)A013098938 cre RERO 856 40 http://www.onleihe.de/wallis/frontend/mediaInfo,55-0-400852917-100-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html Accès réservé - Netzabhängiger Zugriff