Around the World in a Hundred Years : : From Henry the Navigator to Magellan
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Youth level.
Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Narrative history of the Age of Exploration submitted by willow on August 13, 2016, 5:34am Jean Frtiz turns toward the European explorers of the 1600s, devoting one chapter each to Columbus, Cablt, Balboa, Magellan, and others. The chapters vary wildly in length, but each give an outline of the explorer's life, how he came to his "career," where he went, and how he died. There is some humor over the endless disappointments and geographical confusions, among other topics, and the horrors are not excluded -- there's not too much sugar-coating on the issue of how the natives were treated. She does also preserve a fair amount of wonderment at the idea of going off into the unknown. Strangely, this book does not include any good maps of the world as it is, only some maps of how they imagined it, so do plan to have a globe or world map to go along with it.
PUBLISHED
New York : Putnam's, c1994.
Year Published: 1994
Description: 128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0399225277 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Venti, Anthony Bacon.
SUBJECTS
Explorers.
Discoveries in geography.