The Accidental Indies, Robert Finley
The Accidental Indies, Robert Finley
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The Accidental Indies

Author: Robert Finley

Narrator: Julian Casey

Unabridged: 2 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 10/30/2021


Synopsis

At once moving and lyrical, The Accidental Indies is a tale in which we join Christopher Columbus on a fantastical voyage through western seas and Western imagination. Robert Finley imagines, sings, charts, and paints the story of Columbus's problematic 1492 expedition to the Caribbean, creating a world that is as vivid and compelling as the explorer's own voyage to the misnamed "Indies". It is a journey through wondrous words that begins with Columbus's earliest explorations when he first "tests the heft and roundness of this earth against his infant head" by stepping from the edge of his rocking cradle to come up short on the boards of the nursery floor. Finley charts a course for us through the days at sea, through the voyage itself, its records and commentaries, into the fraught territory of Columbus' imaginary "Indies" and the representation of this New World on his return to Spain. This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that “naming” has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies. It is a book about how we perceive and represent the world around us, about the creative and destructive power of language. Through its elaboration of the rich and lively ironies of the Columbus story, The Accidental Indies looks at the nature of storytelling itself.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alina on July 14, 2022

Cautam o carte mica, sa incapa in geanta, sa pot citi in metrou. Criterii putine si excesiv de pragmatice. Nu stiu nici acum cine mi-a pus aceasta carte in biblioteca, pe un raft de sus, nevazuta, nestiuta. Micuta pe toate dimensiunile, cu o coperta lucioasa, cu un titlu minunat, relateaza prima cala......more

Goodreads review by Elena Traduzioni Oceano Mare on March 03, 2019

Brilliant!......more

Goodreads review by Ashleigh on June 10, 2024

I have mixed feelings on this book. This book has beautiful writing but and this feels somewhat like I'm being a hypocrite but sometimes it felt like it took too long to get to the point. For only being a little over 100 pages at times it dragged for me.......more