Introduces the life and accomplishments of the Italian explorer and provides activities based on nautical concepts and the era in which he lived.

A biography of explorer Juan Bautista de Anza, who established a land route between Mexico and California and became governor of New Mexico.

"Learn the story of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León and how he shaped the history of both Florida and Puerto Rico during the Age of Exploration"--

Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus. It is written with the insight, energy, and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus' path to the New World could muster. Morison undertook this expedition in a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch, the dimensions of these craft roughly matching those of Columbus' Santa Maria and Niña.

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Presents the life of Christopher Columbus, from his childhood in Genoa, to his voyages to the New World in search of Asia, to his death, penniless and disgraced.

Columbus' letters and other documents record his journeys to America. No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus...