Exploration and discovery

Tells the stories of some of the men who were among the first to explore and map the American West in the early nineteenth century, paving the way for westward expansion by the United States.

Discusses the Apollo space program of the 1960s and later unmanned NASA probes of the moon and describes the effects of space flight on the astronauts and some of what has been learned about the moon.

Discusses the quest of Portuguese explorers to find a route around Africa to Asia, focusing on the adventures of such famous leaders as Prince Henry the Navigator, Bartholomeu Dias, and Vasco da Gama.

Provides information about the lives and activities of some of the early explorers of the American frontier, including Daniel Boone, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, Zebulon Pike, and others.

Discusses the activities of some of the first French explorers who came to North America beginning in the late sixteenth century, including Giovanni Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, ?tien Br?l?, and others.

Discusses the sixteenth-century exploration of California's coast, including the adventures of such Spanish explorers as Cortes, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, and Sebastian Vizcaino, as well as Englishman Sir Francis Drake.

Explains how the discoveries of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci and the conquests of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Francisco Pizarro, and Pedro de Valdivia created an empire for Spain.