A different world -- The discovery of paradise -- Abundant ocean -- Sea of whales -- Living in paradise -- Angels from the North -- Earthly paradise or earthly Hades? -- Poll Ben, and Martha -- souls and furs -- Gathering of waters -- A sea of islands -- Islands in the sea -- La Florida -- --To shining sea -- Blessing for the use of man -- Rivers of fish -- Wilderness cathedral -- The great stillness -- Devils in paradise -- A new world?
Summary:
Here Steve Nicholls demonstrates with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. --from publisher description