The Swerve How the World Became Modern Biographical Historical Fiction and among Kiingitanga Māori

and among Kiingitanga Māori

photographed in their palaces and on their estates

family and fate

" - Thomasina Miers

The Swerve How the World Became Modern Biographical Historical Fiction and among Kiingitanga MāoriRenowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page turner, and a thrilling testament to the power of the written word. In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini, the