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Irresistible North
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause célèbre among geographers in the following centuries. This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant?s serendipitous... more...
Vikings in America
Birlinn 2012; US$ 12.67The first book to tackle the subject in forty years, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonisation of the eastern seaboard of America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological, linguistic and DNA evidence which supplements the historic account. When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia... more...
Fatal Journey
Basic Books 2009; US$ 26.95From an acclaimed historian, the tale of Henry Hudson?s final voyage in search of the Northwest Passage?and the unsolved mystery surrounding his death more...
The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545
University of New Mexico Press 2011; US$ 39.95This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow's new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time. more...
Humanism and America
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 44.00Humanism and America is the first major study of the impact of Renaissance humanism upon the English colonisation of America. Andrew Fitzmaurice conducts his analysis through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia Company. more...
Footprints of the Welsh Indians
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95The legend of Prince Madoc and the Welsh Indians is a remarkable story of a brave, resourceful and intelligent people and the footprints they left in the New World a story that has been scorned and neglected by modern historians. It is not a happy story more...
Discovery of the Americas
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 48.00Interesting topics Include: Books and printing in the age of Columbus; The Inca Empire; The horse in North America; The legend of El Dorado; The Nootka Convention; The Pueblo Revolt; The role of California missions. more...
Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem
Free Press 2011; US$ 16.00FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HE SET SAIL, the dominant understanding of Christopher Columbus holds him responsible for almost everything that went wrong in the New World. Here, finally, is a book that will radically change our interpretation of the man and his mission. Scholar Carol Delaney claims that the true motivation for Columbus?s voyages is very... more...
American Holocaust
Oxford University Press, USA 1992; US$ 18.99For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere... more...









