Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold

ISBN-13: 9780999196106

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: All Persons Press

Publication Date: 10-06-2017

Pages: 570

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.80(d)

Andrew Rowen has devoted ten years to researching the history leading to the first encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean's Taíno peoples, including visiting sites where Columbus and Taíno chieftains lived, met, and fought. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Harvard Law School and has long been interested in the roots of religious intolerance.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

List of Maps and Illustrations

HISTORICAL NOTE

PROLOGUE: 1455

I: 1455–1460, CHILDHOOD, LESSONS, LEGACY

II: 1460s, YOUTH

III: 1470s, ASCENSION

IV: 1480–1485, AMBITION

V: 1485–1490, FAITH

VI: 1490–AUGUST 2, 1492, DESTINY

VII: CROSSING THE SEA OF DARKNESS

VIII: LUCAYAN ISLANDS

IX: CUBA

X: HAITI

XI: NORTHERN CROSSING

XII: LISBON TO BARCELONA

XIII: SPRING 1493

XIV: SUMMER 1493

Participants, Taíno Spirits, Popes, and Conventions, with family tree for European Royalty

Glossary of Taíno Words

Sources