Geography and anthropology are fields which have often profited from loose boundaries; their ablest scholars have been those with vision broad enough to encompass a science of man, under whatever name. Carl Sauer has been the outstanding thinker in geography in this vital sense. He has always been concerned with man's role in changing, intentionally or not, the face of the earth. Sauer's thought is above all ecological, and thus intricate in dealing with the forces that relate human life to the web of plant and animal life sustaining it. But it is also humane, concrete, and direct, with an appeal to both laymen and his fellow geographers. The papers and extracts in this volume range from Sauer's early studies of pioneers to his later inquiries into human prehistory.

Land & Life: A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer

Sauer, Carl Ortwin

Leighly, John (editor)

Literature & Fiction

University of California Press

Reissued for the 500th Anniversary of Columbus's Voyage to the Americas, Carl Sauer's Classic Account of the Land, Nature, and People Columbus Encountered The history of Columbus's four voyages has been told many times. But Sauer's book is still the only work to provide not only a narrative of the voyages and of the colonizing ventures that followed them, but also an exploration of their impact on the peoples, the flora, and the fauna of the Americas. For Sauer, Columbus was simply "a Genoese of humble birth and small schooling," obstinate and increasingly paranoid. His obsession with gold and the rights he had secured brought the first Spanish venture overseas to the edge of failure. His successors were more competent administrators but continued the quest for riches, destroying the native ecology and the lifestyle of the indigenous peoples. Sauer attempts to show that native Americans had a balanced and highly productive livelihood that gave them abundance, leisure, and satisfaction. This book offers a unique view of the "cultural landscape" Columbus encountered and how it was transformed by the Europeans, establishing a pattern of conquest and settlement that was repeated all over Spanish America.

The Early Spanish Main

History

Europe

Reissued for the 500th Anniversary of Columbus's Voyage to the Americas, Carl Sauer's Classic Account of the Land, Nature, and People Columbus EncounteredThe history of Columbus's four voyages has been told many times. But Sauer's book is still the only work to provide not only a narrative of the voyages and of the colonizing ventures that followed them, but also an exploration of their impact on the peoples, the flora, and the fauna of the Americas.For Sauer, Columbus was simply "a Genoese of humble birth and small schooling," obstinate and increasingly paranoid. His obsession with gold and the rights he had secured brought the first Spanish venture overseas to the edge of failure. His successors were more competent administrators but continued the quest for riches, destroying the native ecology and the lifestyle of the indigenous peoples. Sauer attempts to show that native Americans had a balanced and highly productive livelihood that gave them abundance, leisure, and satisfaction. This book offers a unique view of the "cultural landscape" Columbus encountered and how it was transformed by the Europeans, establishing a pattern of conquest and settlement that was repeated all over Spanish America.

Americas

Reconstructs life in the United States and Canada during the sixteenth century, describing the flora and fauna of the wilderness

Sixteenth-Century North America: The Land and the People As Seen by the Europeans

Univ. Of California Pr.

This is by far and away the best intro. that I have seen to America before the white man for children. It covers every corner of North America and discusses the life styles of the peoples who lived there before European culture came. It is beautifully integrated into the actual geography of the places described and discussed, with a very real sense of the nature of the locales of North America, executed by one of America's best natural and anthropological historians, Carl Sauer. It is a tragedy that it is currently out of print. Hopefully soon someone will pick it up and reprint it.

Land and Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeans

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

River Plains and Sea Coasts

Engineering & Transportation

Russell, Richard J.

Engineering

Northern Mists

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

World

Turtle Island Foundation

Seventeenth century North America

Turtle Island

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Land & Life: A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer

The Early Spanish Main

The Early Spanish Main

Sixteenth-Century North America: The Land and the People As Seen by the Europeans

Land and Life

Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeans

River Plains and Sea Coasts

Northern Mists

Northern Mists

Seventeenth century North America