Ponce de Léon
Subtitle: explorer of Florida
By: Arlene Bourgeois Molzahn.
Series: Explorers!; Explorers! (Enslow Publishers)
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Ponce de León, Juan, 1460?-1521 -- Juvenile literature.; Ponce de León, Juan, 1460?-1521.; Explorers -- America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers -- Spain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Juvenile literature.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: A biography of the Spanish explorer who first came to the New World with Columbus, went on to become governor of Puerto Rico, and later came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46) and index.
Table of contents: title: Into battle; title: On Hispaniola; title: Governor Ponce de León; title: "La Florida"; title: Turtles and an old woman; title: The last battle.