[PDF] The Lost Voyage Of John Cabot eBook

Author : Henry Garfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1439116555

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1498. Sebastian Cabot age fifteen, can only wait and wonder. His famous father has abandoned him at home in Bristol, England, but has taken the boy's older and younger brothers, Ludovico and Sancio, on his second voyage in search of the Asian mainland. On his first journey, sailing north across the Western Ocean in 1497, John Cabot had discovered the New Found Land. He returned to England a hero. Five years earlier, Spain had given Christopher Columbus a similar welcome. He had found Asia, he claimed. And by a southern route. Cabot was skeptical and set out to the north again to prove his old friend a fraud. But silence followed. Now, Sebastian and history are confronted with a tantalizing mystery. What has become of Cabot's second endeavor? Letters to the boy from fourteen-year-old Sancio tell of a fearsome storm and its aftermath. They, and the surprising climax to Sebastian's and Sancio's shared story, make for unforgettable voyaging.

Author : Keisha Hatchett
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 147778814X

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Italian explorer John Cabot sailed to the New World under the flag of England in 1496. His travels through Canada are sketchy due to his flimsy record log and his disappearance during his third voyage. Despite never finding the riches or the Northwest Passage he sought, Cabot’s discoveries led the charge for the English colonization of North America. This resource examines Cabot’s early life, his appeals to European monarchs to fund an expedition, his eventual voyages, his mysterious fate, and his contributions to the Age of Exploration.

Author : Robin S. Doak
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780756504205

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A biography of the English explorer who set sail for Asia and eventually discovered Newfoundland. Chronicles the life of explorer John Cabot, describing his expeditions to the Orient and Newfoundland.

Author : Marian Rengel
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823936267

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Examines the facts and theories surrounding the voyages taken to North America by the English explorer John Cabot in the late 1490s.

Author : P. L. Firstbrook
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780771031212

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On 24 June 1497, the Genoese adventurer John Cabot, bearing letters patent from King Henry VII, became the first European known to have set foot in North America. (Cabot’s contemporary, Christopher Columbus, never actually landed in North America. To his dying day he thought it was the Orient.) Cabot’s triumphant appropriation of the “New Founde Land” for England capped one of the great maritime adventures of the late fifteenth century. Five hundred years later, the Matthew, a painstakingly constructed replica of Cabot’s three-masted caravel, sailed from Bristol, England, to Bonavista, Newfoundland. Her arrival marked the culmination of a maritime adventure as daring in its way as the voyage it commemorates. This time, however, the trials of the captain and sailors on board were recorded on camera and in reporters' notebooks for armchair onlookers to enjoy. Peter Firstbrook has been intimately involved in the recreation of Cabot’s voyage, from the laying down of the modern-day Matthew’s keel in 1993 to its sea trials in 1996 and the voyage itself in 1997. In these pages he relates all that is known about the fifteenth-century adventurer and describes the many challenges that confronted the team that set out to replicate his voyage. The book concludes, like Cabot’s own life, with a mystery: there is no record of how the great seafarer ended his days. He may have simply retired. He may have been lost in a storm on his last attempted voyage to America. Or he may, in fact, have returned to the newly discovered continent only to be murdered by a notorious Spanish buccaneer. This is a finely wrought story of adventure and discovery that will delight and entertain readers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Zachary Anderson
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502601729

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Explore the voyage of John Cabot, the Italian navigator who explored Newfoundland for England in the search for a northwest passage to Asia.