A biography stressing the navigational skills and voyages of discovery of the Italian seaman who discovered a new continent while trying to find a route to the Indies.
A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who traveled the entire length of the Mississippi and took possession of all its surrounding territory for France.
A biography of the Spanish explorer who in two years traveled over four thousand miles through the Southwest and Great Plains yet failed to find what he was searching for.
A biography of the first governor of the Plymouth Colony who served in that office for thirty years and greatly influenced the development of the community.