The discovery of what was later to become the United States of America was a complicated process. Discovery: Up to 1500 recounts the migration of early humans to the area, as well as its early encounters with Europeans. It includes the events leading up to the arrival to what would become North America by the explorer Leif Ericson.
Presents an account of the life and explorations of Leif Eriksson, who led a group of Vikings from Greenland on a voyage which ended on the shores of North America.
Presents brief biographies of the Norse explorer who settled Greenland and of his son who explored parts of North America almost 500 years before Columbus made his first voyage.
After his father and brothers fail to return from a voyage to the west, Finn, a twelve-year-old Viking, stows away on Leif Ericsson's ship and sails to North America to search for them.