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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

Arriving on Savage Shores

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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How Indigenous peoples - as traders, ambassadors and enslaved peoples - discovered Europe long before Columbus set foot on American soil.

Exploring long held ideas about the cultural and trade exchange between Europe and the 'Americas' and the role played by Indigenous people.

Written by Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock
Read by Maggie Service

Abridged by Laurence Wareing
Produced by Naomi Walmsley Show less

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