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from the civilization of Atlantis"
OLD CIVILIZATIONS OF THE NEW
WORLD. by A. H. Verrill. 1929.
F80l. .V61o.
"a popular account of ancient civ
ilizations in North and South Amer
lea, covering the arts and sciences,
the customs, laws and way of living
Of many vanished peoples
Discovery.
TERRA NOVA: the northeast coast
of America before 1902; annals of
Vinland, Markland, Estotiland,
Drogeo, Baccalaos and Norum-
bega. by c. K. Bolton. 1885.
G8Ol B63.
"There is chapter on the Siberian
background. several chapters on the
Morse voyages to the American coast
and one on the alleged Morse visit to
Minnesota in the Middle Ages. a dis
cussion of the zeno map. accounts of
early Newfoundland and of David
Ingrams' supposed walk from Texas
to New Brunswick in 1869"
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, with
some account of ancient America
and Spanish conquest, by John
Fiske. 2 v. 1892 G801 F54
The great American historian of the
latter half of the nineteenth century
writes on ancient America. pre-Co-
lumbian voyages, the search for the
Indies, voyages to Mundus Novus and
the conquests of the Americas.
LEFT ERIKSSON, DISCOVERER OF
AMERICA. A. D. 1908, by E. F.
Gray. 1880. G802 .G80.
eff Mr.. Gray's conclusions are rec
ognized, as they should be, children
will be taught in school hereafter
that it was Left Ericsson and not
Columbus who discovered America" ="
NARRATIVES OF THE DISCOVERY
OF AMERICA, ed. by A. w. Law
renee and Jean Young. 1881.
G801 LA.
presents in a form available to
the general reader the more inn
portant documents descriptive of the
first steps in the discovery of Amer
lea, from the time of the first acci-
dental discovery of Bjarin Herjolfsson
in 986 to the discovery of South
America by Columbus in 1892"
JOHN AND SEBASTIAN CABOT, by
F. A. Ober. 1908. ECHO.
There is opportunity for some biog-
fapher to explore and extend in the
light of modern research the meager
material available on the Cabots. In
the meantime Ober's popular account
tells the story.
HENRY HUDSON. by Llewelyn Powys.
1928. G804 P87h.
"As background to his biography
Mr.. Powys sketches the earlier ex-
plorations. The account of Hudson's
voyages, to the tragic end in Hudson's
Bay Is stirringly told"
THE vINLAND VOYAGES, by Mat
thias Thordarson. 1880. G802 .T39.
"This little volume brings to the
subject sound scholarship and the
definite purpose of throwing real
light rather than the rosy hues of
romance upon the vague outlines"
Christopher Columbus.
WRITINGS OF CHRISTOPHER CO.
LUMBUS, descriptive of the dis
covery and occupation of the New
World. ed. by P. l.. Ford. 1892.
G803 C726.
II must be re-established in repu-
tation and spoken of throughout the
universe: for the things have done
are such that they must gain. day by
day, in the estimation of mankind."-
Columbus
THE DISCOVERER: a new narrative
of the life and hazardous adven-
lures of the Genoese, Christopher
Columbus, by Andre de Hevesy.
1928. E.C72hvE.
"A sober, unbiased non-fictional ac-
count" Of the explorer.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, the
tragedy of discovery, by H. H.
Houben. 1886. E.C72ho.
"Mr. Houbens account of the as
certainable facts of Columbus life
and career is scholarly, accurate,
trustworthy and his Interpretation of
the man himself keen and discrim-
mating" F. F. K
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND
THE NEW WORLD OF HIS DIS
COVERY; a narrative by Filson
Young. 2 v. 1906. E.C72y.
An English scholar interprets Co.
Iumbus in romantic biography.
Spain in America.
ODYSSEY OF CABEZA DE vACA,
=: by Morris Bishop. 1888. EN923b.
The story of the first white man
who crossed the North American con-
tinent from coast to coast brilliantly
told.
SPAIN IN AMERICA, 1450-1580, by
e. G. Bourne. 1904. F83.Am36.v.3.
A reliable account Of the Spanish in
the New World.
THE SPANISH CONQUISTADO2ES
by F. A. Kirkpatrick. 1884. F96 6.K63.
"An attempt to tell in one volume
the story of the Spanish conquests in
the New World viewed as one great
movement. The narrative begins with
the first voyage of Columbus and con-
tinues to the middle of the sixteenth
century"
DE SOTO AND THE CONQUISTA-
DORES, by Theodore Maynard.
1880. E.So77m.
"Mr. Maynard Is competent his
torian who realizes that atmosphere
Is as important as events, and that
motives overshadow men," - Paul
Allen.