america

An account of Theroux's trip by train from Boston to Bogota, Columbia.

Chronicles the expeditions and discoveries of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto, the first European to cross the Mississippi River.

A biography of the Spanish explorer who conquered Florida for the Spanish and discovered the Mississippi River.

Examines the life of the explorer, including his voyages and discoveries in the New World.

Explores how five African civilizations, Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande, and Cross River, have influenced and been portrayed in the aesthetic, social, and meta-physical traditions of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil, and other places in the New World.

Relates the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus, whose voyages across the Atlantic revealed to fifteenth-century Europeans the riches of the Americas.

Travels back 1,000 years, following the adventures of a group of Norsemen led by Leif Eriksson who became the first Europeans to set foot in North America.

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