Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 9780739814925
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Travel with John Cabot as he sails on several voyages to Canada.

Author: Henry Garfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439116555
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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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: Christopher Columbus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Francesco Tarducci
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Robert Kerr
Publisher: Outlook Verlag
ISBN: 3752307153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Reproduction of the original: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr

Author: Charles Raymond Beazley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Robert Kerr
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Author: Frederick Albion Ober
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Ramsay Cook
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487516797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute the first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of northeastern North American and its peoples. The Voyages are rich in details about almost every aspect of the region's environment and the people who inhabited it. As Ramsay Cook points out in his introduction, Cartier was more than an explorer; he was also Canada's first ethnographer. His accounts provide a wealth of information about the native people of the region and their relations with each other. Indirectly, he also reveals much about himself and about sixteenth-century European attitudes and beliefs. These memoirs recount not only the French experience with the Iroquois, but alo the Iroquois' discovery of the French. In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English. Ramsay Cook's introduction, 'Donnacona Discovers Europe,' rereads the documents in the light of recent scholarship as well as from contemporary perspectives in order to understand better the viewpoints of Cartier and the native people with whom he came into contact.

Author: Charles Raymond Beazley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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