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Part. 1. Mental horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the imagination. Finding people from other worlds. Wild men and wanderers. Images of Asia. Part. 2. Eastern horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the eastern Atlantic. Innocence and wildness in the Canary Islands, 1341-1400. The Canary Islanders, 1341-1496. Rights of dominion, 1341-1496. Quarrelsome conquerors, 1402-44. Gold and slaves, 1444-96. Part. 3. Western horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the western Atlantic. From the Old Canaries to the New Canaries, 1492. Taínos and Caribs. Turtles, shamans and snorting tubes. Cuba = Cipangu = Japan, 1492. La Navidad, 1492-3. First news of the New World, 1493. Into the Caribbean, 1493-4. Misrule in Hispaniola, 1494-6. The project unravels, 1497-8. Columbus eclipsed, 1498-1506. Part. 4. Southern horizons : the peoples and shores of Atlantic South America. Vespucci's tabloid journalism, 1497-1504. The land of the Holy Cross, 1500. The realm of King Arosca, 1505. A compulsory voluntary 'requirement', 1511-20. The Renaissance discovery of man |
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