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A biography of Christopher Columbus, supplemented with historical and cultural information about the Renaissance world and the New World he explored.

A brief biography of Spanish explorer Vasco N??ez de Balboa.

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.

A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early nineteenth century and follows an unlikely friendship between a survivor of the French Revolution and an itinerant English engraver's son.

Recounts how Henry Hudson defied orders to find an eastern passage to China by redirecting his voyage along the coastline from Spanish Florida to the Grand Banks, an effort that laid a foundation for New York's establishment as a global capital.

"Explore the voyage of John Cabot, the Italian navigator who explored Newfoundland for England in the search for a northwest passage to Asia"--Provided by the publisher.

"Explore the life and voyages of Henry Hudson, the English navigator who searched across the Northeastern United States and Canada for a northwest passage to China"--Provided by the publisher.

"Discover the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator who discovered the West Indies"--Provided by the publisher.

This volume, with more than twenty-four noted contributors, offers possible evidence of ancient immigrants, lost technologies, and places of power in ancient America long before the voyages of Christopher Columbus.