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: Scholastic
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780590489102
Subjects: Explorers -- Juvenile literature.; Discoveries in geography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers.; Discoveries in geography.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps.
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.