The Man Who Found America
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The Men Who Found America
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Author : Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-30
The Men Who Found America written by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This collection of biographies focuses on the discoverers and explorers of the New World - written for young readers, this is a superb introduction to the Age of Discovery. Beginning with Christopher Columbus, the man who found the Americas, we proceed to a variety of the world's finest explorers. These bold navigators braved lengthy sea voyages, as well as dangers upon the sea and the land. Some were commissioned by the leaders of different countries, while others strove to explore independently. All were brave and their adventures made many great story books. Some even founded the first colonial villages and little ports in new lands, starting the recorded history of many a new territory. Illustrations of the great explorers accompany the biographies, and the author seeks to make the stories of these historic people entertaining yet accurate. Various legends of the time, such as the golden city of El Dorado, are mentioned. Finding mythical treasure and claiming it would not only make the finder a person of huge wealth, but also secure fame and a legacy that would last long after they had left the world.
The Men Who Found America
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Author : Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
The Men Who Found America written by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Man Who Found America
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Author : Ф. В. Хатчинсон
language : ru
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Man Who Found America written by Ф. В. Хатчинсон and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The Men Who Found America
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Author : Hutchinson Frederick Winthrop
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Release Date : 2018-11-11
The Men Who Found America written by Hutchinson Frederick Winthrop and has been published by Franklin Classics Trade Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-11 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Nautical Puzzle Book
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Author : The National Maritime Museum
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-10-29
The Nautical Puzzle Book written by The National Maritime Museum and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Games & Activities categories.
__________ Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue! __________ Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean? The Nautical Puzzle Book is packed to the brim with over 100 puzzles inspired by the National Maritime Museum's objects and their stories. Inside this book you'll find a fiendish mix of word games, codewords, trivia, picture puzzles, word scrambles, anagrams, crosswords and much more. It's a chance to learn all about epic explorers, history makers, record breakers, myths, legends, seafaring traditions and life at sea. By the time you reach the end you'll have navigated centuries of history, crossed thousands of miles of ocean, and made countless discoveries - so batten down the hatches and set sail! __________ The perfect gift for veteran seafarers and armchair navigators alike. Find out if you're worthy of captaincy or destined to be a deck hand in this beautiful and addictive puzzle book! If you're bored of Zoom Quizzes, then this is the book for all the family.
Men Who Found America
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Author : FREDERICK WINTHROP. HUTCHINSON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Men Who Found America written by FREDERICK WINTHROP. HUTCHINSON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The Men Who Found America Classic Reprint
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Author : Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-11
The Men Who Found America Classic Reprint written by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-11 with categories.
Excerpt from The Men Who Found America OW quickly the years pass! But yesterday they were babies; now he is a great boy, clamoring for trousers with vast, mysterious pockets; and she, dear little girl, is a mother, caressing her dolls with an infinity Of maternal graces. Could they but stay young! Were there but a fountain, like the one in these stories, to keep them forever safe in a mother's arms. It is sad to think Of their ever leaving Baby land. There is no country like unto this beautiful bourn Of our children. Here are the dim, magic forests, the enchanted castles, the deep, hidden caves, the secret tree - hollows, where dwell sparrows and fairies and lost little children. In this land the princess is ever young and ever beautiful; the bold Prince Charming slays always the wicked, watchful dragon; the fierce Ogre, with his one malevolent eye forever eats the tender children at his ravenous evening meal. The land is always full, yet always filling; the sun is forever shining, and flowers spring up under the patter Of little feet. Here bad is bad, and good is good, and always the good comes true. For is there not a fairy godmother to save the Child from all the childish evil in the world? What a land Of adventure it is! What daring deeds! What heroic exploits! The little white crib, into which we tuck him so tenderly - why, that is no crib at all! It is a great ship, with flapping sails unfurled, creaking under stress Of storm and sea, sailing oceans unknown to lands Of which we have never heard. It is also a locomotive, a dizzy air - ship, an automobile, and, inturn, a fort, a palace, a forest and a wicked robber's cave. Resolutely the little captain, aeronaut, king, robber and police man marches through all this brave realm Of limitless adventure. Only too soon the child must leave this warm, fair land, and, losing his baby's heritage, enter upon the schoolboy's_ estate. The wicked giants, the fairy princesses, the wonderful, magic animals who talk and think, vanish forever before the spelling book and arithmetic. A little learning is a dangerous thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Leif Erikson Was He The First Man To Discover America
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Author : Cullen Gwin
language : en
Publisher: Learning Island
Release Date :
Leif Erikson Was He The First Man To Discover America written by Cullen Gwin and has been published by Learning Island this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Why do we celebrate Columbus Day? Christopher Columbus wasn't the first man to discover America. He wasn't even the first European to set up a town in America. In fact, there were lots of people here before him. Many people think that the first man to explore North America was Leif Erikson. Leif's father was Erik Thorvaldson. He was also known as Erik the Red. Leif Erikson was the oldest son of Erik the Red. He was born around 970. When he was a child, he moved with his parents to Greenland. They lived on a farm at a place called Brattahlid (say brat-a-lid). There Leif grew up learning about farming. He also learned about sailing from his father. Find out about this sailor who may have been the first man to discover America in this 15-minute biography. Ages 8 and up. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Amerigo
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Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-12-18
Amerigo written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer. In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a sometime slaver and small-time jewel trader; a contemporary, confidant, and rival of Columbus; an amateur sorcerer who attained fame and honor by dint of a series of disastrous failures and equally grand self-reinventions. Filled with well-informed insights and amazing anecdotes, this magisterial and compulsively readable account sweeps readers from Medicean Florence to the Sevillian court of Ferdinand and Isabella, then across the Atlantic of Columbus to the brave New World where fortune favored the bold. Amerigo Vespucci emerges from these pages as an irresistible avatar for the age of exploration–and as a man of genuine achievement as a voyager and chronicler of discovery. A product of the Florentine Renaissance, Amerigo in many ways was like his native Florence at the turn of the sixteenth century: fast-paced, flashy, competitive, acquisitive, and violent. His ability to sell himself–evident now, 500 years later, as an entire hemisphere that he did not “discover” bears his name–was legendary. But as Fernández-Armesto ably demonstrates, there was indeed some fire to go with all the smoke: In addition to being a relentless salesman and possibly a ruthless appropriator of other people’s efforts, Amerigo was foremost a person of unique abilities, courage, and cunning. And now, in Amerigo, this mercurial and elusive figure finally has a biography to do full justice to both the man and his remarkable era. “A dazzling new biography . . . an elegant tale.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An outstanding historian of Atlantic exploration, Fernández-Armesto delves into the oddities of cultural transmission that attached the name America to the continents discovered in the 1490s. Most know that it honors Amerigo Vespucci, whom the author introduces as an amazing Renaissance character independent of his name’s fame–and does Fernández-Armesto ever deliver.” –Booklist (starred review)
The Man Who Led Columbus To America
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Author : Paul H. Chapman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Man Who Led Columbus To America written by Paul H. Chapman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Columbus did not sail due west to America. Instead he employed a route plan for the round trip which took advantage of the trade winds. How did Columbus, without having been there, know about the trade wind route? This was the key to his sucess. But until know the source of this information has not been solved by researchers. Now a history student-navigator with working knowledge of both cartography and navigation (Columbus' two fields) presents the solution in The Man Who Led Columbus to America. In solving the mystery, Chapman first explains the navigation described in ancient manuscripts, then plots the courses described and next includes photographs showing the remarkable accuracy of the early descriptions; finally an artist is employed to illustrate the natural happenings which had previously been thought to be "miraculous events." In additon the author found that these early manuscripts contained the first written reports of: an iceburg encounter, a submarine volcano eruption, a coral sea, grapefruit, sea grapes, and the island groups of the Faeroes, the Azores, the Antilles in the Caribbean, and the Bahamas. -- Cover.