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Describes the adventures of the seventeenth-century English explorer, from his search for a short route from Europe to the Orient to his mysterious disappearance after members of his crew mutinied.

A biography of the French explorer who founded Quebec, discovered Lake Champlain, and was called the Father of New France.

Describes the life of Columbus as a young man, and as an explorer who marshalled the best technology of his time to explore new lands.

A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.

Traces the life of the Italian sailor who is most remembered for his voyages to the New World on behalf of Spain.

Describes the life of Christopher Columbus and how he came to discover the New World.

Describes Coronado's explorations in the southwestern United States in the 1540s, an expedition which revealed for the first time to Europeans the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert, the Great Plains, herds of buffalo, stark deserts, snow-capped mountain peaks--yet never the gold the Spaniards so avidly desired.

Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during the time of the first Thanksgiving.

Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.

Describes Coronado's exploration of what is now the southwestern United States.

A biography of the English explorer and sea captain who explored three North American waterways later named for him--the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait.

An account of the Cabots' exploration of Canada and Argentina.

Describes Champlain's exploration of New France and his relations with the Indians.

Illustrations and simple text provide a brief introduction to the life of sixteenth-century explorer Jacques Cartier.

Describes the life and voyages of the Italian-born explorer who claimed land in the New World for England in 1497.