The Males Who Discovered America: Lives of the New World Explorers – Columbus, Raleigh, Cabeza de Vaca and Extra, Advised for Kids

This assortment of biographies focuses on the discoverers and explorers of the New World – written for younger readers, it is a very good introduction to the Age of Discovery.

Starting with Christopher Columbus, the person who discovered the Americas, we proceed to a wide range of the world’s most interesting explorers. These daring navigators braved prolonged sea voyages, in addition to risks upon the ocean and the land. Some have been commissioned by the leaders of various nations, whereas others strove to discover independently. All have been courageous and their adventures made many nice story books. Some even based the primary colonial villages and little ports in new lands, beginning the recorded historical past of many a brand new territory.

Illustrations of the good explorers accompany the biographies, and the writer seeks to make the tales of those historic folks entertaining but correct. Numerous legends of the time, such because the golden metropolis of El Dorado, are talked about. Discovering legendary treasure and claiming it might not solely make the finder an individual of giant wealth, but additionally safe fame and a legacy that will final lengthy after that they had left the world.