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Juan Ponce de Leon and the search for the Fountain of Youth
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Daniel E. Harmon |
A biography of the Spanish explorer and governor of Cuba, who attempted to find the Fountain of Youth in the New World. |
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Juan Ponce de Leon and the discovery of Florida
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Sandra Wallus Sammons |
A biography of the explorer responsible for discovering Florida. |
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
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Valerie Menard |
Discusses the life and exploration of a descendant of Spanish politicians, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who came to America as a conquistador but was captured and made a slave. |
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Juan Ponce de León
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Tamara Green |
A biography of the Spanish explorer who sought fruitlessly to discover a fountain of youth in Florida and the Caribbean. |
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Hernando De Soto
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David Ewing Duncan |
"An admirable tour de force that will need to be consulted by future biographers of the Spanish conquerer. Impeccable scholarship and documentation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. |
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Hernando de Soto
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Jan Gleiter |
A biography of the Spanish explorer who led the first European expedition to reach the Mississippi River, explored in what is now Florida, and took part in the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. |
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Christopher Columbus
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Elaine Murray Stone |
A biography of Christopher Columbus, supplemented with historical and cultural information about the Renaissance world and the New World he explored. |
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Christopher Columbus
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John D. Clare |
The life and times of Christopher Columbus recreated in photographs. Describes his four voyages to the New World, his activities there and discusses the sources of information about him. Suggested le… |
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Morning Girl
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Michael Dorris |
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she w… |
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Christopher Columbus
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Arlene Bourgeois Molzahn |
Discusses the life of Christopher Columbus, with an emphasis on his career as an explorer. |
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Over 450 years ago
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Philip Arthur Sauvain |
Describes what life was like in America before the coming of the Europeans and examines the effect of the arrival of Columbus, Pizarro, and Cortez on the lives of the native peoples. |
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Pizarro, Orellana, and the exploration of the Amazon
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Brendan Bernhard |
Describes the journey through the Amazon Basin made by Orellana and Pizarro in the early sixteenth century. Also discusses the Inca and the conquest of South America by the Spanish. |
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Coronado's Golden Quest
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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… |
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Columbus
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Dan Zadra |
A brief biography of the Italian weaver's son who never achieved his dream of finding a trade route to India, but in pursuing it opened the door to the New World. |
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Christopher Columbus
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Robin S. Doak |
A biography profiling the life of the fifteenth-century explorer Christopher Columbus, who opened up the Americas to the Europeans. Includes source notes and timeline. |
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
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Jim Whiting |
Discusses the life and exploration of the Spanish nobleman, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. |
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The journey of Columbus
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Lilly, Melinda. |
Briefly presents Christopher Columbus's 1492 journey from Spain into the unknown. |
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Hernán Cortés
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Kristin Petrie |
An introduction to the life of Hernando Cortés, the Spanish explorer who discovered Baja California and explored the Pacific coast of Mexico, but who is best remembered for conquering the Aztec Empi… |
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Francisco Pizarro
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Trish Kline |
Introduces the life of Francisco Pizarro, the explorer who was sent to Peru by the king of Spain to conquer the Incas and claim their land and wealth for the Spanish crown. |
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Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
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Carrie Nichols Cantor |
Traces the life and accomplishments of Spanish explorer and conquistador, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, who led a major expedition from Mexico through what is now the southwestern United States. |
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