Synopsis Covers the discovery and exploration of North America by a variety of European explorers.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-09-01 | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
| Size | | Length: | 86 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 7.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Publisher's Note When Columbus discovered a new world for Spain, no one knew that the Vikings, centuries earlier, had attempted their own settlement of North America. In 1497, John Cabot, a Genoese sailor like Columbus, was chosen by the British king to search for a Northwest Passage to the Orient and to claim some of the fabulous new lands that Columbus found. Historian Delno West and Jean West tell of John Cabot's and his son Sebastian's adventures in exploring the North Atlantic and explain how scholars have learned from 15th-century sources where the Cabots went and what they did.
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