Four times Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way, he lived through storms and shipwrecks. He visited many islands and met native peoples. He started colonies for Spain. Once he was sent home in chains. Columbus always believed he had reached the East, or Asia. One of the most famous explorers of all times never knew where he had been!.
A dramatization that describes the voyages of fifteenth-century explorer, Christopher Columbus, including his determination to receive funding in order to find a westward route to Asia and his accidental discovery of a new world.
Provides insights into the explorations of the American frontier through a dramatized interview with Kit Carson in which he discusses his own accomplishments, as well as the activities of such frontiersmen as Daniel Boone, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, and James Beckwourth.
Describes the explorations, conquests, accomplishments, and failures of sixteenth-century Spanish explorers Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Juan Ponce de Leon, and Hernando de Soto in North America.
An introduction to early American history, providing information on the first inhabitants of North America and the changes that occurred when European explorers first arrived.
Michael Wood follows in the footsteps of some of history's greatest Spanish conquistadors, relating the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Cabeza de Vaca, and others in Mexico, Peru, the Amazon, and America.
Presents an "interview" with Christopher Columbus, in which the explorer describes the goals of his four voyages to the New World and discusses their successes and failures, covering such topics as his avoidance of mutiny on his first voyage and his encounters with the Taino, a native people of the Caribbean.
With the discovery of an ancient diary, two children learn what drove Columbus to explore the unknown, who helped him in his journey, and what he found once he arrived in the New World.
