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Introduction: Understanding Exploration Narratives

The Heroic Tale

The Historians Remember

An Incomplete Knowledge of Geography

Additional Dangers of Sea Travel

The Objectives of the Explorers

What the Monarchs Wanted

The Scramble for Information

Pre-Columbian Explorations

The Contributions of NonEuropeans

Devastation in the New World

Searching for Native Voices

Exchange Across the Atlantic

Remembering the Early Explorers

Seventeenth-Century North America

Chapter 1 In Search of a Water Route to Asia

Chapter Preface

Sailing an Unknown Ocean with an Anxious Crew

Across the North Atlantic

Finding the Straits of Magellan

A World Unknown to the Ancients

At the Mercy of the Winds

Chapter 2 Encountering the Natives

Chapter Preface

Slaves, Spices, and Gold

"Willing" Christian Converts

A "Golden Age" in the New World?

In Defense of the Natives

Chapter 3 Conquest

Chapter Preface

Power Struggles in the New World

A Civilization Deemed Worthy of Conquest

"Blinded and Dazed" by Greed

Chapter 4 Inland Journeys

Chapter Preface

The Wondrous Cities of the Aztecs

Traveling with the Indians

Negotiating on the St. Lawrence

River of the Amazons

Chapter 5 SeventeenthCentury Expansion

Chapter Preface

Exploring the Spanish Southwest

Making Native Allies and Enemies

Navigating the "Great River of the West"

Chronology

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