Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Creation Myths 1
5. 1. Elizabethan England Engages the World 12
6. 2. Adventurers, Opportunities, and Improvisation 43
7. 3. Indian Experience of the Atlantic 73
8. 4. English Hunger for the New 109
9. 5. Grasping America’s Contours 145
10. 6. A Welter of Colonial Projects 183
11. 7. Jamestown’s Uncertain Beginnings 210
12. 8. The Project Revised 241
13. 9. James Cittie in Virginia 278
14. Notes 329
15. Index 371