Provides twenty-two step-by-step projects to help readers learn about the explorers that discovered America and their voyages.

The Age of Exploration, which spanned roughly from 1400 to 1550, was the first time in history that European powers—eyeing new trade routes to the East or seek

From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the Am

Presents the biography of the Spanish explorer who visited the Southwestern United States.

Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writi