The discovery of mankind: Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus

pt. 1. Mental horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the imagination. Finding people from other worlds

Wild men and wanderers

Images of Asia

pt. 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

pt. 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

pt. 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.