books.google.it - From Columbus's first voyage to "the Indies" in 1492, Basques have participated in Spain's American enterprise. Supported by centuries of experience as mariners, shipbuilders, traders, miners, and ironworkers; encouraged toward emigration by restrictive inheritance laws and a land-poor territory; and...http://books.google.it/books/about/Possible_Paradises.html?hl=it&id=eiqFIaY0LpEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePossible Paradises