Shorto Russell: The Island at the Centre of the World
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records — recently declared a national treasure — are now being translated.…