Chapters (22)
- DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS
- EDWARD R. SHAW
- AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS.
- BELIEFS AS TO THE WORLD FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
- MARCO POLO.
- COLUMBUS.
- VASCO DA GAMA.
- JOHN AND SEBASTIAN CABOT'S VOYAGES.
- AMERIGO VESPUCCI.
- PONCE DE LEON.
- BALBOA.
- MAGELLAN.
- HERNANDO CORTES.
- FRANCISCO PIZARRO.
- FERDINAND DE SOTO.
- THE GREAT RIVER AMAZON, AND EL DORADO.
- VERRAZZANO.
- THE FAMOUS VOYAGE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE—1577.
- HENRY HUDSON.
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