discovery and exploration

Explores various details of territorial expansion in the United States, covering pioneer life, government relations with Native Americans, the Northwest Ordinance, the Louisiana Purchase, the Texas Revolution, and more, with illustrations, a timeline, and statistics.

Presents a short children's history of explorer, Christopher Columbus and describes his life, voyages, and encounters with the native peoples of Hispaniola and other areas of the new world.

Presents a children's history of the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and provides information on how the trip was financed, fifteenth-century navigational tools, and some of the problems Columbus and his crew encountered.

Presents a short children's history of explorers Lewis and Clark and describes their voyage across the American west from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, encounters with the native tribes along the way, and the various plants and animals they saw.

Chronicles the life and adventures of sixteenth-century French explorer Samuel de Champlain, and describes his voyages from France to North America in search of a trade route to Asia, the founding of Acadia, and the colonization of New France.

Presents a short children's history of English explorer Henry Hudson, and describes his life and quest to locate the Northwest Passage through the new world.

Chronicles the life and journeys of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Francisco V?squez de Coronado, who searched the lands north of Mexico, or New Spain, for the legendary Seven Cities of C?bola.

A biography of Viking explorer Leif Erikson.

Follows the travels of Italian explorer John Cabot, born Giovanni Caboto, who moved to England and got King Henry VII to back an expedition across the Atlantic, where Cabot found what is now Canada. Eager to discover more, Cabot soon set sail on another voyage -- never to be heard from again.

Describes the travels of Jacques Cartier, the sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China.