This first volume of John Fiske's history explores the European discovery of America, with an account of ancient American peoples and the Spanish conquest. It offers a broad, readable narrative for listeners interested in how the Old World encountered the New.
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Opening of the book
Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies and errors are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Description of the characters not found in the Unicode tables: [p-] p with stroke below. John Fiske. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF ANCIENT AMERICA AND THE SPANISH CONQUEST BY JOHN FISKE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. Then I unbar the doors; my paths lead out The exodus of nations; I disperse Men to all shores that front the hoary main. I too have arts and sorceries; Illusion dwells forever with the wave. I make some coast alluring, some lone isle To distant men, who must go there or die. Emerson
Editor's arm. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1897 Copyright, 1892, By JOHN FISKE. All rights reserved. SIXTEENTH THOUSAND. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company. TO EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN, A SCHOLAR WHO INHERITS THE GIFT OF MIDAS, AND TURNS INTO GOLD WHATEVER SUBJECT HE TOUCHES, I DEDICATE THIS BOOK, WITH GRATITUDE FOR ALL THAT HE HAS TAUGHT ME PREFACE. The present work is the outcome of two lines of study pursued, with more or less interruption from other studies, for about thirty years. It will be observed that the book has two themes, as different in character as the themes for voice and piano in Schubert's "Frühlingsglaube," and yet so closely related that the one is needful for an adequate comprehension of the other. In order to view in their true perspective the series of events comprised in the Discovery of America, one needs to
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