Sixteenth-Century North America: The Land and the People As Seen by Europeans

Sixteenth-Century North America: The Land and the People As Seen by Europeans by Carl Ortwin Sauer. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780520027770.

"A rich mine of factual information detailing the experiences and impressions of Europeans on the newly discovered continent before their settlement had begun its not-always-fortunate effects....." Choice "... relates early contacts between European and Indian in North America, and reminds us of the wrongness of our still prevailing impression that this was a primitive continent inhabited by savage, warring tribes. There was much to admire in Indian America, and many an early traveler wrote admiringly of what he saw. Who could translate the atmosphere of the time better than Sauer?" - Journal of Geography