Filled with complex characters and soaring action, The Bend of the River returns readers to pre-Hispanic Mexico and offers gripping insight into one of the most famous military campaigns in all of history. If his approach fails, the Mexica will pay with blood. If his approach succeeds, peace will prevail in the One World. Ever one for creative solutions, he settles on a plan as devious as it is risky. Motecuhzoma, leader of the Mexica Confederacy, thinks so. But is there an alternative to direct confrontation? Even the Mexica, the undisputed overlords of the region, may not be able to best them on the field.Ī shocking act of violence makes it clear, however, that conflict cannot be avoided. Aided by aggrieved vassals and rapacious soldiers, Cort's has assembled an army unlike any in all the One World. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at Winner of the Readers' Favorite Five Star AwardĬort s' fleet wallows at the bottom of the ocean, and his army marches for Tenochtitlan. A historical novel, Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold now dramatizes these events from a bicultural perspective, fictionalizing the beliefs, thoughts, and actions of the Native Americans who met Columbus side by side with those of Columbus and other Europeans, all based on a close reading of Columbus’s Journal, other primary sources, and anthropological studies. Some text from the Press Release: After 525 years, the traditional literature recounting the history of Columbus’s epic voyage and first encounters with Native Americans remains Eurocentric, focused principally-whether pro- or anti-Columbus-on Columbus and the European perspective.

Instead, The drama alternates among three Taíno chieftains-Caonabó, Guacanagarí, and Guarionex-and Bakoko, a Taíno youth seized by Columbus, Spain’s Queen Isabella I of Castile, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Columbus.

Encounters Unforeseen doesn’t start at the (in)famous voyage, or even in Europe.

Coming in the months trailing the 525th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s (or Cristobal Colon’s) voyage to the America’s, Rowen’s novel seeks to add some much needed depth to the modern myths on the subject. In this Conversations episode, This Anthro Life hosts Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins are joined by author Andrew Rowen to discuss his new novel, Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold.

Encounters Unforeseen by Andrew Rowen