| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5 | The History Cooperative

Jack D. Forbes. The American Discovery of Europe. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 250. $34.95.
Jack D. Forbes chose a promising subject. There is plenty of underexploited material on the indigenous side of the story of the New World's encounters with Europe, and Forbes has the audacity required to make the attempt to use it. But his book is narrow in focus, short of evidence, weak in argument, inattentive to much of the scholarship, and heedless of the most interesting problems.	1
Forbes has two objectives: to insist that people from the New World reached Europe before Europeans reached America, and, to emphasize that they continued to do so subsequently. He takes no interest in how indigenous peoples perceived Europeans, or how the encounters influenced them. Concerned exclusively with possible routes of transatlantic navigation from west to east, he refers only to the Caribbean and maritime North America. There is nothing about how and with what effect people elsewhere in the hemisphere made their discoveries of Europe.	. . .

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