First encounters

"First Encounters: Native voices on the coming of the Europeans" reaches back to add important, often overlooked viewpoints to our understanding of history, gathering together accounts describing the initial experiences of indigenous peoples around the world with European explorers, missionaries, traders, soldiers and settlers.... First encounters brings together 42 authentic, first-person accounts, organized geographically in sections on Africa, North America, South America, Greater Australia, and Asia. Selections, each with editors notes, provide vivid, detailed accounts of the culture clashes that defined an era."--BACK COVER.