The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book paints a clear picture of the diverse and complex societies that constituted the Americas before 1492 and reveals the surprising Native American involvements in maritime trade and exploration. Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Forbes proceeds to explore the seagoing expertise of early Americans, theories of ancient migrations, the evidence for human origins in the Americas, and other early visitors coming from Europe to America, including the Norse. The provocative, extensively documented, and heartfelt conclusions of The American Discovery of Europe present an open challenge to received historical wisdom.

Contents
 Preface
 Introduction
 1. Americans across the Atlantic: Galway and the Certainty behind
 Columbus' Voyage
 2. The Gulf Stream and Galway: Ocean Currents and American
 Visitors
 3. Seagoing Americans: Navigation in the Caribbean and Vicinity
 4. Ancient Travelers and Migrations
 5. From Iberia to the Baltic: Americans in Roman and Pre-Modern
 Europe
 6. The Inuit Route to Europe
 7. Native Americans Crossing the Atlantic after 1493
 Notes
 Bibliography
 Index