[PDF] Explorations In America Before Columbus eBook

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1416949003

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A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.

Author : Don L. Wulffson
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822559781

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Presents the archaeological evidence for and historical theories of the exploration of North America by numerous civilizations long before Columbus, discussing seven groups spanning 146 B.C. to 1492.

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618663910

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Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1429937734

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The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.

Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1000963802

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First published in 1974, England and the Discovery of America places the early explorations of the English in North America in the broad context of 15th and 16th century history. Marshalling evidence that cannot be pushed aside and sifting a mass of fascinating detail (including problems of cartography and the Vinland Map controversy), Professor Quinn presents circumstantial indications pointing to 1481 as the date or the discovery of America by Bristol voyagers – fishermen seeking new sources of cod, and merchant sailors with maps carrying promise of unexploited Atlantic islands. Whereas England did little to follow up her early lead, Quinn demonstrates that English initiatives from the 1580s onward, though slow, were of great importance. He brings to life the men involved in a variety of rash and heroic experiments in colonization and casts new light on their fates. He makes it clear that it was this very profusion of trial and error and trail again, as well as the conviction that settlement in temperate latitudes in North America could be effective if tenaciously enough sought, that enabled the English to strike and maintain routes in their new American world. This book will be of interest to students of English history, American history, colonial history and naval history.