A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.

"The African presence in ancient America"--Jacket subtitle.

Five hundred years before Columbus, a young Viking named Leif Eriksson crossed the Atlantic and became the first-known European to set foot in North America. Th

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged