Syme, Ronald

A biography of the explorer whose search for a shorter route to the Far East led him to discover a bay, a strait, and a river on the northeastern coast of America.

A biography of the Apache chief who rose to leadership through the ranks and led one of the last great Indian uprisings in the nineteenth century.

A biography of the Seminole leader who spent his life fighting the white men's attempts to deport his people from Florida.

A biography of the Italian who explored the Atlantic Coast from Cape Fear to Cape Breton discovering New York and Narragansett bays during his voyages.

A biography of Ferdinand Magellan, who sailed from Portugal in 1519 to find a route to the Far East. Magellan died during the voyage and only one ship returned to Portugal, but he had proved that it was possible to sail around the world.

A biography of the two seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first to chart the course of the Mississippi River.