Includes bibliographical references and index

Christopher Columbus -- His "Enterprise of the Indies" -- Columbus's first voyage of discovery, August-October 1492 -- The Greater Antilles, 12 October 1492-15 March 1493 -- Triumph and tragedy, March 1493-April 1494 -- Jamaica, Cuba, and rebellion, 1494-1496 -- Third voyage, mainland discovered, 1498-1500 -- The mariner's day -- "Minor voyages" : the Spanish Main, 1499-1526 -- The discovery of Brazil, 1500-1508 -- Columbus's fourth voyage, 1502-1504 -- Vespucci and Solis, 1499-1516 -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Armada de Molucca, 1517-1519 -- Magellan's voyage to the Strait, 1519-1520 -- "The Strait that shall forever bear his name," October-November 1520 -- Across the Pacific -- Philippines and Spice Islands -- Homeward bound, 1522 -- Spain's follow-up to Magellan, 1525-1565 -- Bermuda, Florida, and the Gulf, 1505-1543 -- Sebastian Cabot goes to sea, 1526-1530 --The conquest of the river Plate, 1534-1580 -- France and Portugal in Brazil, 1504-1568 -- Back to the Strait, 1534-1558 -- California before Drake -- Drake's voyage of circumnavigation, 1577-1579 -- Drake in California, 1579 -- The voyages of Sarmiento de Gamboa, 1571-1589 -- The voyages of Thomas Cavendish, 1586-1593 -- The discovery of Cape Horn, 1598-1616

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