explorers

Traces the life of the Italian sailor who is most remembered for his voyages to the New World on behalf of Spain.

A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.

Describes the life of Columbus as a young man, and as an explorer who marshalled the best technology of his time to explore new lands.

Presents a biography of the Portuguese navigator who commanded the first expedition to sail around the world.

A biography of the French explorer who founded Quebec, discovered Lake Champlain, and was called the Father of New France.

Describes the adventures of the seventeenth-century English explorer, from his search for a short route from Europe to the Orient to his mysterious disappearance after members of his crew mutinied.

Describes the expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

A biography of Mexico's conqueror.

Text and photographic illustrations describe the explorations of Ferdinand Magellan and Vasco da Gama in the sixteenth century which led to the establishment of Spanish and Portuguese empires around the world.

Chronicles the childhood of Marie Ahnighito, the daughter of Admiral Robert E. Peary, who was born in an Intuit village in northern Greenland and spent the next few years making friends with Intuit children, playing on the region's glacial cliffs, and living a life unlike other Victorian children.