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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Who really discovered America?	Stephen Krensky	Examines the races, tribes, wanderers, and explorers who may have found America before Columbus, including the prehistoric nomads who crossed the land bridge from Asia and possible Polynesian, Phoeni…	OL115778W
A chronological history of the discovery of the Aleutian Islands	Vasiliĭ Nikolaevich Berkh	Translation of work first published in 1823.	OL13345981W
Explorers of North America	Brendan January	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.	OL14852088W
Brutal journey	Schneider, Paul	This book tells the story of an army of would-be conquerors who came to the New World on the heels of Cortés. Bound for glory, they landed in Florida in 1528. But only four of the four hundred would …	OL15811853W
The last voyage of Columbus	Martin Dugard	An account of Columbus's fourth and final voyage describes the aging captain's determination to find a passage to the Orient, recounting how his efforts where challenged by shipwreck, mutiny, and pol…	OL15837665W
Columbus	Laurence Bergreen	An epic historical adventure awaits. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed ev…	OL16360841W
Juan Ponce de Leon and the discovery of Florida	Sandra Wallus Sammons	A biography of the explorer responsible for discovering Florida.	OL17871424W
Christopher Columbus	Tanya Larkin	Brief text and illustrations chronicle the life, voyages, and discoveries of the intrepid explorer.	OL19131273W
A voyage long and strange	Tony Horwitz	The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a …	OL2692560W
The monkey's bridge	David Rains Wallace	"When the Panama land bridge between North and South America formed three million years ago, plants and animals surged back and forth in an evolutionary cross-fertilization creating one of the world'…	OL29184W
Diario y derrotero	Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre	The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish c…	OL3507644W
Encounters with the Americas	Rosemary A. Joyce	"Richly illustrated catalog accompanied the renovated exhibition at Harvard's Peabody Museum. Like the exhibition, the catalog is divided into three parts: the age of encounter between indigenous and…	OL3533847W
Coronado's Golden Quest	Michael Eagle,Alex Haley,Barbara Weisberg	Coronado’s Golden Quest describes Coronado’s search for gold in the Southwest and his interaction with the Natives residing there. The first Europeans to explore the American Southwest were Spanis…	OL4290812W
Man comes to America	Harold Coy	Discusses the various theories of early man's arrival in the Americas, his settlements, and his means of survival.	OL5508870W
Henry Hudson	Trish Kline	Introduces the life of Henry Hudson, the English sea captain who explored the Arctic Ocean and the river and bay later named for him while in search of a northern route to the Orient.	OL5952564W
Henry Hudson	Josepha Sherman	Outlines the events of this English explorer's famous Arctic journeys and his search for the Northwest Passage to Asia.	OL742478W
The Armature of Conquest	Beatriz Pastor Bodmer	The discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World is here imaginatively treated as a journey from fantasy to reality, from complicity to rejection, from mythification to criticism. Focusing o…	OL8443648W
Who discovered America?	Patricia Lauber	Discusses how information on the settling and exploration of America before Columbus has been compiled from archaeological discoveries.	OL86440W