A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.
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""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.
Introduces the life and accomplishments of the Italian explorer and provides activities based on nautical concepts and the era in which he lived.
Learn about the explorer Christopher Columbus and his four voyages to the New World. Introduces the life and accomplishments of the Italian explorer and provides activities based on nautical concepts and the era in which he lived.
Taking a comprehensive, nuanced, and inclusive approach to Christopher Columbus, this illuminating biography with activities for young readers places him in the context of the explorations that came before, during, and after his lifetime. It portrays the Admiral of the Ocean Sea…