First Encounters

by Joseph Cummins

'First Encounters' is a book of first contact moments drawn from over 500 years of human exploration, adventure and discovery. Divided into sections, this is a book filled with historial moments that have become the stuff of controversy, myth and legend.

320 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2009

About the author

Joseph Cummins is the author of numerous books, including Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Elections; A Bloody History of the World, which won the 2010 Our History Project Gold Medal Award; and the forthcoming Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests That History Forgot. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife and daughter.

Reviews

[Dallas Robertson]

At the risk of gushing, I think this book has become one of my all-time favourite reads. Brimming mostly with stories of first encounters of the history of European exploration and colonisation, every single account in this book has been told in a exciting but sensitive manner. I deliberately read this work slowly so as to assimilate each story and think about it afterwards. Highly recommended.