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|title=The Indies Enterprise

|author=Eric Orsenna

|reviewer=Andy Lancaster

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-1906598938

|pages=320

|publisher=Haus Publishing

|date=October 2011

|summary=Sometimes books are important because they don't fulfil your expectations, but deliver a complete surprise. This isn't a rippling yarn of the Columbus family as one might expect, but Orsenna is an experienced winner of the Pris de Goncourt and the skill, depth and detail of this quietly understated fictional account of the most momentous discovery of the Americas shows his range of talent and insight.

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For a novel which uses the same approach to technical and historical detail, it is hard not recommend [[Corsair by Tim Severin]] which, while more of a 'tale of derring do', does spend much of its energy upon recreating the detail of seafaring in the seventeenth century.

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