Volume 17, Number 8 · November 18, 1971

Passage to Cathay

By J.H. Elliott
The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528
by Lawrence C. Wroth

Yale University Press, 320 pp., $25.00

The Beginnings of Modern Colonization
by Charles Verlinden, translated by Yvonne Freccero

Cornell University Press, 248 pp., $9.75

The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages
by Samuel Eliot Morison

Oxford University Press, 712 pp., $15.00

Beyond the Capes: Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger (1776-1877)
by Ernest S. Dodge

Little, Brown, 429 pp., $12.50

These cheerful and hospitable people, 'dressed in birds' feathers of various colors,' were the inhabitants of New York.



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