Columbus's failures: La Navidad and La Isabela (1492-1497)
The follies of Alonso de Ojeda and Diego de Nicuesa: San Sebastian de Uraba (1510) and Santa María la Antigua del Darién (1510-1524)
German bankers in the jungles: Venezuela (1528-1556)
Quarrelsome French in Brazil: France Antarctique (1555-1567)
Spanish Hidalgos and covert Jews: Jamaica (1509-1655)
Courlanders on Tobago: troubled isle (1638-1654)
The graveyard of colonists: the wild coast (1576-1830)
Puritans and pirates in the Caribbean: Providence Island (1630-1641)
Burghers in the tropics: Dutch West India Company in Brazil (1624-1654)
Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy: a rogue knight of Malta in the Caribbean (1651-1665)
The fate of a nation: Scots in Panama (1698-1700)
Sir Gregor MacGregor: cacique of the never-never land of Poyais (1820-1838)
Southern dreams: confederate cultural colonies in Mexico, British Honduras, Venezuela, and Brazil (1865-ca. 1875).