A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World 978-0-8050-7603-5, 0-8050-7603-4, 9780312428327
[This book] uncovers the neglected story of America's founding by Europeans. [It] begins a thousand years ago, with
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English Year 2008
Table of contents :
Content: Prologue: Lost century --
Discovery: Vinland, first contact
1492, the hidden half of the globe
Santo Domingo, the Columbus jinx
Dominican Republic, you think there are still Indians? --
Conquest: Gulf coast, naked in the new world
Southwest, to the seven cities of stone
Plains, sea of grass
South, De Soto does Dixie
Mississippi, conquistador's last stand --
Settlement: Florida, fountain of youth, river of blood
Roanoke, lost in the lost colony
Jamestown, the captain and the naturals
Plymouth, a tale of two rocks.
