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Texts

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo  
Cabrillo's Log, 1542-1543: A Voyage of Discovery. A Summary by Juan Páez. (pb) £8.50

Bernal Diaz
The Conquest of New Spain. J. M. Cohen, trans. (hb, Folio Society) £8.00 

T. J. Knab, ed.
A Scattering of Jades: Stories, Poems, and Prayers of the Aztecs. (pb) £3.50

André Thevet
Portraits from the Age of Exploration: Selections "Les vrais pourtraits et views des hommes illustres"; ed. Roger Schlesinger; trans. Edward Benson. (hb) £8.50




Secondary works

Geoffrey Ashe et al. 
The Quest for America. (hb) £15.00 

Geraldine Barnes
Viking America: The First Millennium. (hb) £12.50

Don Carleton
Ireland the Great: How the Irish brought Christianity to North America 1500 years ago. (pb) £6.50 

James Robert Enterline
Viking America: The Norse Crossings and their Legacy. (pb) £2.00

Norman H. Finkelstein
The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World. (pb) £4.50 

Cyrus H. Gordon
Before Columbus: Links Between the Old World and Ancient America. (hb) £10.00 

Stephen Greenblatt
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. (pb) £8.00

Siegfried Huber
Entdecker und Eroberer: Deutsche Konquistadoren in Südamerika mit Zeitgenössischen Erlebnisberichten und Dokumenten. (hb) £14.00 

Helge Ingstad
Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-Columbian Norse House-sites in North America. (hb) £6.50 

De Lamar Jensen, ed. 
The Expansion of Europe: Motives, Methods, and Meanings. (pb) £4.00

J. H. Parry
The Audiencia of New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century: A Study in Spanish Colonial Government. (hb) £12.00

Karl H. Schlesier, ed.
Plains Indians, A.D. 500-1500: The Archaeological Past of Historic Groups. (hb) £35.00
Plains Indians, A.D. 500-1500: The Archaeological Past of Historic Groups. (pb) £20.00 

Roger Schlesinger
In the Wake of Columbus: The Impact of the New World on Europe, 1492-1650. (pb) £4.50 

Kirsten A. Seaver
The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca. A.D. 1000-1500. (pb) £12.50 

Patricia Seed
Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640. (hb) £25.00

Jacques Soustelle
Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest. (pb) £2.00 

George C. Vaillant 
Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise, & Fall of the Aztec Nation, 2nd edn. (pb) £2.00




Books & journals containing related material

Race & Class, vol. 33 no. 3 (January-March 1992): The Curse of Columbus.  £6.00 


[Exhbition catalogue]:
The Gold of El Dorado: The Royal Academy, Picadilly, London, 21 November 1978-18 March 1979. (pb) £4.50  

Silvio A. Bedini, ed.
Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration: An Encyclopedia. (pb) £9.50 

Christopher Falkus
Life in the Age of Exploration. (hb) £4.50 

Barnet Litvinoff
1492: The Year and the Era. (hb) £10.00 

Gavin Menzies
1421: The Year China Discovered the World. (hb) £9.50

Giles Milton
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World. (hb, signed copy) £4.50

Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen, eds.
Difference and Dissent: Theories of Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (pb) £11.00 

Dan O'Sullivan 
The Age of Discovery 1400-1550. (pb) £2.50

Graham Phillips
Merlin and the Discovery of Avalon in the New World. (pb) £3.50

Adriano Prosperi & Wolfgang Reinhard, eds.
Il Nuovo Mondo nella coscienza italiana e tedesca del Cinquecento. (pb) £9.50 

J. M. Roberts
Different Worlds. (hb) £2.50

Kirkpatrick Sale
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. (pb) £4.00 

G. V. Scammell
The Great Age of Discovery, 1400-1650
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£3.00  

Andrew Sinclair
The Sword and the Grail: Of the Grail and the Templars and a True Discovery of America. (hb) £14.00 

Gwyn A. Williams
Madoc: The Making of a Myth (The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of America). (pb) £12.50

Ian Wilson
The Columbus Myth: Did Men of Bristol Reach America Before Columbus? (hb) £6.00 

 
 

 
 


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