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Category : South America
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
South American Explorer
Author: The Exploration of South America
Author: Tim CookePublisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1433986280
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Explorers searching for a “New World” found a continent teeming with life and opportunity. Readers will learn how humanity pushed to the edges of the Earth in the quest for knowledge. They will also learn about the exploits of famous explorers such as Francisco Pizarro and Americo Vespucci while full-color photographs show the continent in stunning detail. Fact boxes add depth to every expedition and journey, while glossary terms and further information give readers an in-depth examination of this exciting topic.
South American Explorer
Author: The Explorers of South America
Author: Edward Julius GoodmanPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. Goodman has marshaled his wide-ranging research and lifelong interest in exploration into a comprehensive, scholarly history. A reprint of the original 1972 edition, the tales have lost none of their luster.
Amerigo Vespucci
Author: Heather Moore NiverPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477787968
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Amerigo Vespucci, the presumed namesake of the continents of North America and South America, is a controversial figure in the history of European exploration. The number of voyages he took to the New World is in dispute, but among his accomplishments, he found a rough method of calculating longitude, made notes on the indigenous peoples he encountered, and published theories proving that Columbus had not landed in India. This volume separates the fact from fiction, the man from the myth, and sets about to responsibly examine the remaining open questions at the heart of this history of New World exploration.
Francisco Pizarro
Author: Sandra J. KachurekPublisher: Enslow Elementary
ISBN: 9780766021785
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Who conquered the Inca and opened South America up for Spanish exploration? Francisco Pizarro did. Pizarro first heard about the Inca and their treasure while he was exploring with another famous man -- Vasco Nunez de Balboa. Read about how Pizarro searched for years before finding Peru and the Inca. In Francisco Pizarro: Explorer of South America, author Sandra J. Kachurek discusses the life and times of Pizarro and his explorations in South America. Book jacket.
The South American Explorers Club
Author: Brendan J. F. ThiessenPublisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543771424
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Jumping from moving trains, drinking and dancing till the dawn, and exploring the land and culture of the Incan people, while documenting various people from across the globe that he met along the way, The SOUTH AMERICAN EXPLORERS CLUB is a stellar read. A celebration of youth and the uncertainty of the future. This book encompasses long distance trekking in the Peruvian Andes, exploring ancient Incan ruins, the lost funerary burial pits of the Nazca culture, camping in the lake district of southern Chile, the kinship of other travelers, and the joys and hardships that go along with and are intrinsic to long term travel.
The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545
Author: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VacaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780826350633
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1555, Cabeza de Vaca's narrative of his South American expeditions is a detailed account of his five years as governor of Spain's province of the Rio de la Plata in South America. Cabeza de Vaca was already a celebrated explorer by the time he went to La Plata, known for his great trek across North America in the 1520s and 1530s and for the Relación he wrote about that journey. His tales of his river and forest explorations in South America show that he had lost none of his early curiosity and drive. He was the great secular champion of the native peoples of the New World and the only Spaniard to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents. This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow's new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time.
Across South America
Author: Hiram BinghamPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Across South America" (An account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru) by Hiram Bingham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Magellan and the Exploration of South America
Author: Colin HynsonPublisher: Barron's Educational Series
ISBN: 9780764105319
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Follows the daring voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, a man driven by the age-old dream of finding a say to asia by traveling westward.