Stolen Continents; A Spirited Resistance; & Marvellous Possessions

• Stolen Continents. The Indian Story
  Ronald Wright - John Murray, 1992 - xii+424 pp. - £19.95
• A Spirited Resistance. The North American Indian Struggle, 1745-1815
  Gregory Evans Dowd - The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991 - xxiv+261 pp. - $24.95
• Marvellous Possessions. The Wonder Of The New World
  Stephen Greenblatt - Clarendon Press, 1992 - 202 pp. - £33.50

There has been a veritable flotilla of conferences, seminars, documentary films and publications to mark this fifth centenary year of Columbus' voyage. Their organisers have invariably sought to avoid glorification of the Genoan sailor, but to present his 'discovery' from the point of view of its American Indian victims. Now, at last, a book has triumphantly achieved this.