xxvii Preface
xlii Images of America
The Literature of the new world
1 Introduction
3 Cultural Landscapes and Interiors: Amerigo Vespucci, "We arrived at an new land"
8 Cultural Landscapes and interiors: Captain John Smith, The sea mark
10 Native American Literature: First encounters
13 A bring strait Eskimo creation myth
14 The time when there were no people on the Earth Plain
16 A Navajo Evil-chasing chant
18 Prayer of the first night male shooting chant evil
20 An Onondaga Iroquois creation myth
21 The manner in which it established itself
30 Native American oral poetry
31 The beginning of sickness
32 They came from the east
32 Saga of the greenlanders
48 Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506)