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This book examines the lives and accomplishments of Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, French explorers who introduced Europeans to the Mississippi River.
This book examines the lives and accomplishments of Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, French explorers who introduced Europeans to the Mississippi River.
A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.
""The book is an idea that has finally found its time.""--Publisher's Weekly ""I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years.""--Kurt Vonnegut.
Discusses how the expeditions of Columbus increased the wealth of Spain, yet severely damaged the lives of the native Americans.
Chronicles the voyages of Columbus after his famous 1492 landfall in the Americas, explaining how they reflected Columbus's uncanny navigational skills before taking an extreme toll on his health and personal circumstances.
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonst…
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonst…
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonst…
From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer: Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershe…
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonst…
In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of Columbus's four voyages as well as the historical background of his celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives.
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonst…
When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453, the long-established trade routes to the East became treacherous and expensive. Enterprising young men took to the sea in search of new lands, new routes, new markets, and of course the possibility of glory and vast fortunes. His…
When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453, the long-established trade routes to the East became treacherous and expensive. Enterprising young men took to the sea in search of new lands, new routes, new markets, and of course the possibility of glory and vast fortunes. His…