Describes the activities of explorers in North America from 1000 to 1804 including Leif Ericsson, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot, and Lewis and Clark.

"In The Renaissance Explorers with History Projects for Kids, readers ages 10 to 15 find out more about what it meant to be an explorer and follow the biographies of five famous Renaissance explorers, including Niccolò de Conti, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pêro da Covilhã, and Ferdinand Magellan, from their childhoods until their exhilarating days of scouting new-to-them lands. In addition to diving deep into the biographies of five Renaissance...

"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage across the Atlantic. But in recent years, as new evidence has come to light, our understanding of history has changed. We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first"--Book jacket.

Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans. When the European explorers "discovered" the Americas, native peoples were already established. This book looks at Indian societies from the earliest peoples. In addition to the text, there are features such as a look at the Mound Builders and an excerpt from the journal of a settler in Virginia.

Surveys the history of New World explorations from the Viking age to the eighteenth century, including the latest views on pre-Columbian explorations.

A life of the Genoese weaver's son who sought to prove the worldis round, telling how he studied map-making in Portugal, waitedlong years for financial and material support from Isabella ofSpain, and finally made four voyages to the New World.