Around the world in a hundred years
Subtitle: from Henry the Navigator to Magellan
By: Jean Fritz ; illustrated by Anthony Bacon Venti.
Contributors: Venti, Anthony Bacon, ill.
Publisher: PaperStar
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Explorers -- Juvenile literature; Discoveries in geography -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Around the world in 100 years.; Around the world in one hundred years.
Description: Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-124) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the explorers; title: Prince Henry the Navigator - Bartholomew Diaz; title: Christopher Columbus; title: Vasco da Gama; title: Pedro Alvares Cabral; title: John Cabot; title: Amerigo Vespucci; title: Juan Ponce de León; title: Vasco Núñez de Balboa; title: Ferdinand Magellan; title: After Magellan.