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As fellow at the JCB library during the summer of 2008, I examined the documentation and worked on preparing an English critical edition and translation of the first book published on the discovery of America, the Libretto de tutta la nauigatione de Re de Spagna...

The image below is the frontispiece to one of the most well-known Indian captivity stories. It shows Peter Williamson in the dress of a Delaware Indian and illustrates the book he wrote titled, French and Indian cruelty: exemplified in the life, and various vicissitudes of fortune, of...