| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Beginnings of America | 1 |
| II. | Richard Hakluyt the Man | 17 |
| III. | “The Principal Navigations” | 32 |
| IV. | The Early Voyages | 36 |
| V. | Quest for the Northwest Passage | 53 |
| VI. | The Voyages of the Cabots | 62 |
| VII. | The English Claim to America | 77 |
| VIII. | Ventures in the Cabots’ Track | 90 |
| IX. | The Northeast Passage | 96 |
| X. | The Opening of Russia | 104 |
| XI. | Voyages for the Muscovy Company | 124 |
| XII. | Revival of the Northwest Theory | 143 |
| XIII. | Frobisher in Arctic America | 150 |
| XIV. | The Lust for Gold | 176 |
| XV. | Hawkins in Florida | 197 |
| XVI. | Drake’s Great Exploits | 227 |
| XVII. | On the Pacific Coast | 253 |
| XVIII. | Gilbert’s Voyages | 285 |
| XIX. | Footprints of Colonization | 308 |
| XX. | “Virginia” | 322 |
| XXI. | Raleigh’s Lost Colony | 351 |
| XXII. | Jamestown | 381 |