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Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book provides a detailed account of Columbus' three voyages to the New World, along with exhaustive descriptions of the author's sources, illustrations, facsimiles of original documents, maps, biographical information, etc. Justin Winsor was an historian and Librarian of Harvard University.
12) John Cabot
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) Colón
Series
Publisher
Edimat Libros
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
Español
Description
A biography of Christopher Columbus.
20) Hernando De Soto
Author
Publisher
Abdo Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the sixteenth-century Spaniard who explored Florida and other southern states, and became the first white man to cross the Mississippi River.