Because indigenous voices were frequently distorted or silenced, their perspectives were largely absent from debates and discussions in Europe and have been frequently ignored in histories of the age of exploration. And explorers' firsthand narratives reinforced this, centering on travel from east to west across the Atlantic and the changes wrought in the New World. Focusing on these one-way accounts does not just silence the perspectives of the natives but also downplays other important factors and can lead to the impression that ships, people, products, and ideas traveled in only one direction. Yet in many vital ways, many benefits went from west to east and crossed the Atlantic to affect Europe itself. In addition to the vast amounts of wealth in gold and silver shipped back to countries such as Spain, and the increasingly developed and coordinated slave trade that at first...