Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. A Note on Translations viii
6. Introduction 1
7. The Sixteenth-Century World and Jacques Cartier 10
8. Forgetting and Remembering 29
9. The Invention of a Hero 50
10. Cartiermania 72
11. Common Sense 99
12. The Many Meanings of Jacques Cartier 128
13. Decline and Dispersal 157
14. Failure and Forgetting 180
15. Notes 190
16. Bibliography 216
17. Index 232