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Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (Pages from History)

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From Columbus’s voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, in 1789, Jill Lepore, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history, brings to life in exciting, first-person detail one of the crucial earliest events in American history in Encounters in the New World.

Providing fascinating observation along the way in which, Lepore seamlessly links together number one sources that illustrate the powerful clash of cultures within the Americas. Through emotional eyewitness accounts — memoirs, petitions, diaries, captivity narratives, private correspondence — formal documents, official reports, and journalistic reportage, dramatic stories of the New World are revealed, including:
* A Jesuit priest’s chronicle of life among his Iroquois captors
* Aztec records of forbidding omens
* John Smith’s account of cannibalism a number of the British residents of Jamestown
* Memoirs by members of Cortes’s expedition
* Reminiscences of an escaped slave

A special 16-page color cartographic section, including maps from both Europe and North The united states, provides an interesting take a look at how the maps’ creators saw themselves and the world around them.

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