The European rediscovery of America
Subtitle: how European explorers like Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Pedro Álvarez Cabral, and the Corte-Real brothers sailed to the continents they would call the New World
By: Kelly Wittmann.
Series: Exploration and discovery; Exploration and discovery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Mason Crest
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Explorers.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- European -- Juvenile literature.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- European.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Discusses the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers who landed in the Americas and returned to Europe believing that they had discovered a new world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 62) and index.
Table of contents: title: The landing; title: Europe's quest for riches; title: The life and travels of Columbus; title: The rivals of Columbus; title: John Cabot's voyages for England; title: A new beginning, a tragic end.