Christopher Columbus's "Letter to the Sovereigns": announcing the discovery / Margarita Zamora
"Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty": Cortes and the conquest of Mexico / Inga Clendinnen
The negotiation of fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Rolena Adorno
Ius et Factum: text and experience in the writings of Bartolome de Las Casas / Anthony Pagden
Demons, imagination, and the Incas / Sabine MacCormack
The philosopher's breviary: Jean de Lery in the enlightenment / Frank Lestringant
The aesthetics of conquest: Aztec poetry before and after Cortes / David Damrosch
Dancing and the sacred in the Andes: from the Taqui-Oncoy to Rasu-Niti / Sara Castro-Klaren
The work of gender in the discourse of discovery / Lois Montrose
Ralegh's fugitive gold: reference and deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana / Mary C. Fuller
Voices of resistance: the epic curse and Camoes's Adamastor / David Quint
Elizabethan tobacco / Jeffrey Knapp
Epilogue: Michel de Certeau's heterology and the new world / Luce Giard
Travel narratives of the French to Brazil: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Michel De Certeau.