I am looking for a compilation of writings from early European explorers, who first made contact with tribes in remote parts of Africa, India, Australia, North America, and South America. I would be curious to learn about the traditions, quality of life, and good/bad about pre-colonial life of these tribes before they were disturbed by outside influences. Trying to google this wasn't particularly fruitful, and this lost reddittor from 9 years ago is the closest advice I could find: https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/7gbg2t/explorer_journals/
Hardline racist conservatives would caricature the natives as savages. Mainstream media liberals would caricature the natives as living in paradise before the evil Europeans showed up. Which is it? I'd be curious to read the perspectives of the actual Europeans who were the first to meet these people. Anyone read any books from a historian about this? Looking for some reading material after I finish my Roman history book.
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I am looking for a compilation of writings from early European explorers, who first made contact with tribes in remote parts of Africa, India, Australia, North America, and South America. I would be curious to learn about the traditions, quality of life, and good/bad about pre-colonial life of these tribes before they were disturbed by outside influences. Trying to google this wasn't particularly fruitful, and this lost reddittor from 9 years ago is the closest advice I could find: https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/7gbg2t/explorer_journals/
Hardline racist conservatives would caricature the natives as savages. Mainstream media liberals would caricature the natives as living in paradise before the evil Europeans showed up. Which is it? I'd be curious to read the perspectives of the actual Europeans who were the first to meet these people. Anyone read any books from a historian about this? Looking for some reading material after I finish my Roman history book.
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