Background
On December 24, 1889, Carl Sauer was born in Warrenton, Missouri. His father taught at the Central Wesleyan College, a German Methodist enterprise, since closed.
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Trade paperback Publisher: University of California Press Date published: 1974 ISBN-13: 9780520011243 ISBN: 0520011244
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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.
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8vo. 204 pp, I. The Westering of Europe in the Middle Ages; II. The Portuguese at Sea; III. Newfoundland and Farther Coasts; IV. Whaling and Sea Fisheries; V. The Vikings; VI. Greenland and Vinland; VII. Failure of the Greenland Settlements; VIII. Irish Searfaring; IX. Dark Ages and Tenebrous Sea?; index with b&w illustrations and maps. First Edition, 1968. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "The author assembles and evaluates a remarkable network of evidence in documenting his story of early Northern Atlantic sea-faring, including the work of Portuguese navigators and fisherman; Bristol port records which bear on the nature of long westward voyages. He sifts out, from the legendary Norse and Icelandic sagas, what can be treated with some confidence as records of historical fact. He draws upon contemoporary archaeological investigations of Norse settlements in Greenland ;and the still mysterious settlement unearthed at Bell Isle" from the jacket flap.
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"A rich mine of factual information detailing the experiences and impressions of Europeans on the newly discovered continent before their settlement had begun its not-always-fortunate effects....." Choice "... relates early contacts between European and Indian in North America, and reminds us of the wrongness of our still prevailing impression that this was a primitive continent inhabited by savage, warring tribes. There was much to admire in Indian America, and many an early traveler wrote admiringly of what he saw. Who could translate the atmosphere of the time better than Sauer?" - Journal of Geography
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On December 24, 1889, Carl Sauer was born in Warrenton, Missouri. His father taught at the Central Wesleyan College, a German Methodist enterprise, since closed.
His parents sent young Sauer to a school at Calur, Württemberg, and he gained his first degree from Central Western College before his nineteenth birthday. In 1915 he earned a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Chicago, and from 1915 to 1922 he served on the staff at the University of Michigan. In 1923 he went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained to his retirement in 1957.
Sauer's first paper was an "outline for fieldwork" in geography, published in 1915 and developed further in 1919 and 1921 in the Geographical Review and the Annals of American Geographers. From 1923 to 1954 he worked as Dean of the Faculty of Geography of the University of California, and since 1957 Сarl Sauer was an honorary professor of this university. During his career, Carl Sauer has published more than twenty books and monographs and a huge number of articles. A significant part is devoted to the description of different regions and tribes of America, the formation of local cultures and the history of the colonization of continents by Europeans. Apart from a school text, Man in Nature: America before the Days of the White Man (1939); the Bowman Memorial Lectures, published as Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952); and The Early Spanish Main (1967); and Seventeenth Century North America (1971), virtually all his writing was in the form of articles, scholarly, fascinating, persuasive, and well documented, if at times arousing the opposition of readers. He died on July 18, 1975 and was interred in his hometown of Warrenton, Missouri.
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Physical geographers in America already had a long and distinguished record of field survey, but Sauer, with a few other vigorous young men in the University of Chicago, saw the potential of land-use mapping, possibly with a view to evaluation of the most suitable use. In time he saw the fascination of human settlements and other patterns in relation to the culture of the people who established them. Sauer recognized the difficulty of reconstructing past landscapes, even in America, where some areas had been settled only for a very few generations, and he turned with admiration to such studies as the 10-volume Corridors of Time series (1927 - 1956) of H. J. E. Peake and H. J. Fleure. Perpetually concerned with the human imprint on the landscape, he said in 1956 that the geographer need not fear the expression of a value judgment, for the use of resources will influence the lives of future generations for good or evil. He also organized the international Symposium on Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, held at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1955. Agricultural dispersals, the origins of various cultures, the destruction of plant and animal life, the strivings of man for life under adverse conditions, and the effects of climatic change all attracted the scholarly attention of Carl Sauer.