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That is not accurate. The first colonies in North America were the Roanoke Colony (failed) and the Jamestown (successful) colonies of Virginia. These were founded by Sir Walter Raleigh and the Virginia Company of London respectively.
The colonies of Virginia engaged in absolutely fucking intense warfare with the Powhatan tribes of the region and almost completely eradicated them in order to turn their lands into tobacco plantations because the way natives practiced agriculture was not conducive to large scale tobacco production. You are wrong sir.
I recommend reading Charles C. Mann's 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created for further clarity on the subject.
You're thinking of his son Kermit. I'm halfway done with Candice Millard's book about it, River of Doubt, and its been a pretty good listen.
The Lost City of Z is a book that fits your criteria very well imo. The author went into the Amazon to try to find out what happened to Percy Fawcett and/or locate the actual lost city of Z. Fawcett set out in the Amazon searching for a famous lost city and disappeared in the early 1900s
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NLL414/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The TR posdcasts would have to be like, 5 three hour specials...
All the shit that man did and saw. All the hunting. Exploring the Amazon...
This book is amazing if you're a Teddy Roosevelt fan.
These are two books you should read if you care to understand this interesting subject from two respected authors. Look at how cheap the used copies are.
https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies-ebook/dp/B06X1CT33R
The book was written in a way that while giving historical facts and analyzing them, it wasn't dry reading at all (not that I don't mind a dry history book every now and then). It almost had the feel of a novel at times; I was very impressed.
I recommended "Destiny of the Republic" to one of my girlfriend's coworkers, and he absolutely loved it as well. We discussed many parts of it at length over beer at Old Chicago. He just told me last week that Ms. Millard also wrote another book I need to read - "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey". That looks absolutely amazing if you ask me, and given the writing style of her, I'll definitely be trying that one when I get time. I'd forgotten about him telling me until this conversation, so thanks for reminding me, I added it to my list now.
On another note, if that title trips your trigger and interests you at all, I've read a book about Percy Fawcett and his search for the Lost City of Z in the Amazon - was absolutely amazing. I believe the title is "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon", and the description of the book sounds correct. It's sitting on a shelf at home, so when I get home tonight, I'll check and confirm to you whether it's the correct title or not. Pretty sure it is. Either way, it's an amazing book that not only tells about the history of what happened and what they think happened, but also delves into a bit of why they think he did it to begin with as well. Didn't take me long to go through that book at all, I was enthralled the entire time.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CUSQOA0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 was a pretty good read about this. I'm inclined to believe this theory, that there was some sort natural phenomenon on the mountain that caused them to panic and experience confusion. Possibly a Karman Vortex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_vortex_street
I agree that Covid doesn't come close to being as deadly as smallpox ...YET. Also, I don't suggest 'forcing' people to be vaccinated, but, refusing to let them in stores, movie theaters, schools, or public transportation w/o a vaccination is justifiable to avoid more death and civil and economic disruption.
Anyway, we need to have protocols in place as this is not going to be the last pandemic because climate change is going to bring disease vectors/hosts further north. May I suggest The Lost City of the Monkey God. The last 1/2 of the book addresses this. The first half discusses what happens when disease burns through a society.
This is nice but should also add he had horrible asthma as a kid and basically willed himself to stop having it. And oh yeah, a few years before his death — after a Brazilian politician joked to him that it couldn’t be done — led an expedition through an uncharted Amazon river where he and his men were besieged by starvation, disease, and vicious Indian attacks. Book:
https://www.amazon.com/River-Doubt-Theodore-Roosevelts-Darkest-ebook/dp/B000Q9ITGW
I can't recommend Endurance enough. It's all about Ernest Shackleton's attempt to cross Antarctica. Amazing!
I love how you still responded after so much time had passed :)
The River of Doubt is what it's called, an excellent book imho.
I'm reading "Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston right now. It's been a highly entertaining first-hand account of (what I think was) the first use of LIDAR for archaeology in the jungles of Central America, and the ground exploration that followed. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who's interested in this story.
Dead Mountain. Non fiction about a dozen student hikers that disappeared in the mountains in Russia in 1959. On the edge of my seat true story. 1.99 on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mountain-Untold-Dyatlov-Incident-ebook/dp/B00CUSQOA0 So good.
Civilisation by Niall Ferguson is an interesting read on Western history: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0054TVW04/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
The Birth of Classical Europe is a good primer of the pre-history for this as well: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004H4XCQ4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
The very first one was the [Batavia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(ship), which is one of the strangest and most morbidly fascinating shipwreck stories in history.
edit: Highly recommend the Peter Fitzsimmons book about the whole ordeal
>i would like to note that these periods all happend without human intervention.
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I would like to note that you are incorrect.
And all of us who read about your error know it.
Now you can be educated also!
http://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncovering-World-Columbus-Created-ebook/dp/B004G606EY
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton
Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist who went on an early Antarctic expedition (that Shackleton was also on). He was part of the team that first made it to the magnetic pole.
He returned on second expedition that had multiple teams including the aim of reaching the magnetic pole again to map how far it had moved. He was actually in the Antarctic this time at the same time as Amundsen and Scott.
Then drama happened.
No spoilers, but Sir Edmund Hillary was being hailed as the 'Greatest Explorer' for conquering Everest, he demurred and said "No. Douglas Mawson is the Greatest Explorer of our age."