Douglas Preston Quote

The ultimate offense was the idea that Europeans discovered the New World to begin with, as if the people living here didn’t exist before Europeans saw them.

Douglas Preston

The ultimate offense was the idea that Europeans discovered the New World to begin with, as if the people living here didn’t exist before Europeans saw them.

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About Douglas Preston

Douglas Jerome Preston (born May 31, 1956) is an American journalist and author. Although he is best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child (including the Agent Pendergast series and Gideon Crew series), he has also written six solo novels, including the Wyman Ford series and a novel entitled Jennie, which was made into a movie by Disney. He has authored a half-dozen nonfiction books on science and exploration and writes occasionally for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and other magazines.