Read about English explorers Sir Walter Raleigh, John Cabot, and Henry Hudson.

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

A biography of the Italian explorer who, in the fifteenth century, became the first European to discover the West Indies islands, located below the southernmost tip of the United States, in three historic voyages sponsored by Spain's monarchy.

The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery.

In simple text and pictures, provides a very brief biography of three famous Spanish explorers.

Read about ancient Aztec life and learn why the Aztec were important.

Read about George Washington, who he was, and why he was important.

In simple text and pictures, provides a very brief biography of three famous French explorers.

Read about the Maya, the jobs they had and why they were important.

Read about the Inca, where they lived, and why they were important.