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2) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Description
Awakened gently by Sun, Sailor sets off to explore new lands where he meets Fisher, and although they speak and dress differently, they find they have much in common. Includes author's note about the first encounter between a European explorer and a Native North American.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living in America. It wasn't exactly a 'New World,' but an old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals, and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors, and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals, and disease. Here is an exploration into...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xii, 445 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs--these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers."--From publisher description....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 247 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 23 cm
Description
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America. The journey described...
Author
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
14 CDs (17 hrs. 17 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chronicle of the period in American history between Columbus's discovery of the new world and Jamestown's founding evaluates the voyages and first-contact experiences of numerous European adventurers.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
This story of the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England follows his 1588 journey from Japan to Mexico, Java and Southern Africa and up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth I.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 371 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
The author describes eleven rival regional "nations" in the United States (Yankeedom, New Netherland, the Midlands, Tidewater, Greater Appalachia, the Deep South, New France, El Norte, the Left Coast, the Far West, and First Nation), and how these deep roots continue to influence our politics today.
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