america

Presents a full-color illustrated look at Henry Hudson and his explorations. Discusses conditions aboard his ships, the people he encountered, weather conditions, and his death and legacy. Features maps, a timeline, fact boxes, quotes, writing activities, a glossary, and further resources.

Captioned illustrations highlight significant events in U.S. history between 1500 and 1750, including the discovery, exploration, and settlement of America.

Examines the nature of the interaction between Africa and Europe in the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries; and considers the role that those Africans who went to live in the non-African parts of the Atlantic played in their new societies, focusing on the economic, political, and cultural life of the transplanted Africans.

Follows the travels of fifteenth-century Spanish explorer Ponce de Le?n, covering his search for the Fountain of Youth and his discovery of Florida.

An Indian boy travels from Texas to Mexico City with Cabeza de Vaca and other Spanish explorers in the 16th century.

Young Diego reads a letter from his father, an astronaut, describing the journeys and discoveries of the first explorers to the New World.

Describes some of the difficulties that Columbus faced on his first voyage to the New World and what he found at the journey's end.

Discusses both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to America by the Phoenicians, Saint Brendan of Ireland, the Vikings, and such later European navigators as Columbus, Cabot, and Magellan.

An adaptation of the adult book that studies the economic and ecological connection started by Christopher Columbus and continued by Legazpi that transported thousands of species around the globe including people, foods, insects, bacteria, plants, viruses, and animals. Discusses how this global connection impacted human history causing the rise of Europe, the devastation of imperial China, the disruption of Africa, and the prominence of Mexico City.

The imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record of the 1527 conquistador P?nfilo de Narv?ez's expedition to claim the Gulf coast of North America for the Spanish crown and which was faced with peril, navigational errors, disease, and starvation, as well as resistance from indigenous tribes.