Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Creation myths -- 1. Elizabethan England engages the world -- 2. Adventurers, opportunities, and improvisation -- 3. Indian experience of the Atlantic -- 4. English hunger for the new -- 5. Grasping America's contours -- 6. A welter of colonial projects -- 7. Jamestown's uncertain beginnings -- 8. The project revised -- 9. James Cittie in Virginia -- Notes -- Index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-369) and index