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Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap ; An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Learn all about Christopher Columbus' early life at sea, which led him to seek fortune by sailing west in hopes of creating new trade routes with the Indies. Kids will read about why he called himself the "Great Admirald of the Seas" and learn of all his struggles to find finacial support for his voyage.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Concentrates less on Christopher Columbus and more on the location, habitat, and fauna found during his discovery of the Americas, casting the past in a whole new light.
Author
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those 'new' lands and their inhabitants that continues today. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled from country to country in a late-medieval media event--and the rest, as has been observed, is history. The Letter has long been the...
99) Christopher Columbus and the great voyage of discovery: with a message from President George Bush
Author
Publisher
Discovery Enterprises
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
The life of the fifteenth-century Italian sailor who discovered a new continent while pursuing his dreams of adventure across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a western route to India.
100) Columbus
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
A life of the Genoese weaver's son who sought to prove the world is round, telling how he studied map-making in Portugal, waited long years for financial and material support from Isabella of Spain, and finally made four voyages to the New World.