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Sir Francis Drake

2022
A biography of the English seaman and explorer who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for helping to make England a world power by circumnavigating the globe and raiding Spanish ships.

John Cabot

Describes the life and voyages of the Italian-born explorer John Cabot, who claimed land in the New World for England in 1497.

Henry Hudson

An account of the life and discoveries of the explorer whose four voyages to the New World resulted in the Dutch settlement of the Hudson Valley area and the English claim to what is now Canada.

Henry Hudson

2006
Two young hosts meet Henry Hudson and learn about his four voyages including an expedition along the eastern coast of North America and a voyage into what is now known as Hudson Bay.

Henry Hudson

seeking the Northwest Passage
Presents a short children's history of English explorer Henry Hudson, and describes his life and quest to locate the Northwest Passage through the new world.

Sailing to America

colonists at sea
1998
Describes the 1633 voyage of the ship Treadwell carrying Puritans and colonists from England to the New World.

The sea dogs

privateers, plunder and piracy in the Elizabethan Age
1975

Henry Hudson

exploring the Northwest passage
2015
"Explore the life and voyages of Henry Hudson, the English navigator who searched across the Northeastern United States and Canada for a northwest passage to China"--Provided by the publisher.

Thai Hill tribes

phrasebook
1991

Pale as the moon

1999
On visits to the sandy Outer Banks islands off the coast of North Carolina, a sixteenth-century Paspatank girl named Gray Squirrel befriends a wild pony, and together they fulfill their destiny of helping the English colonists on Roanoke Island.

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