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On 24 June 1497 John Cabot Landed Somewhere On The Eastern Seaboard of what isnow Canada. Yet even today five hundred years later no one knows preciselywhere. Once an issue in diplomatic negotiations over title to a continentCabots landfall has also been the subject especially in centennial years ofcompeting attempts to appropriate the meaning of the event.Beginning with the historical context of Cabots journey Pope traces thevarious landfall theories that have placed his landing in locations from theStrait of Belle Isle to Cape Breton. The very uncertainty of our knowledge heargues has allowed nationalists in both Newfoundland and Canada to shape thedebate about Cabots itinerary and to stake claims to the landfall that amountto the invention of differing national traditions. As well Pope concludes theinvented tradition of discovery has allowed Europeans and their descendantsto overlook the fact that their possession of North America is based onappropriation from Aboriginal peoples.Wellillustrated with period maps engravings and stamps The Many Landfallsof John Cabot will appeal to readers interested in early European transatlanticvoyages in the nature of the anniversaries that have celebrated Cabotslanding and in the question of how national pasts are constructed often fromambiguous sources. «
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