![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wright will be speaking about his new book, The Gold Eaters, a novel set during the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in the 1530s, a great turning point in history that–as Adam Smith and Karl Marx both noted–laid the foundations of our modern world. His earlier works Stolen Continents, Time Among the Maya, and Cut Stones & Crossroads, are now available in Penguin Modern Classics with new introductions by Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, and Alberto Manguel. Wright’s first novel, A Scientific Romance, won Britain’s David Higham Prize and was chosen as book of the year by the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and the Sunday Times. Some, like the whiskery-eyebrowed monster. A Short History of Progress, his CBC Massey Lectures, won the Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film Surviving Progress. Part coming-of-age novel, part first-contact saga, The Gold Eaters tells the story of Spain’s battle for Peru through the eyes of the participants. Novelist and historian Ronald Wright is the award-winning author of ten books published in sixteen languages and more than forty countries. Historian Wright’s third novel ( Hendersons Spear, 2002, etc. 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, UBC ![]() Green College and the Vancouver Institute present: ![]()
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