Brendan the Navigator: A History Mystery about the Discovery of America

Brendan the Navigator: A History Mystery about the Discovery of America
ISBN-10
0399233261
ISBN-13
9780399233265
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Exploration & Discovery
Pages
31
Language
English
Published
1979
Publisher
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Author
Jean Fritz

Description

If you ask children in Ireland who really discovered America, you may get this surprising answer: "St. Brendan, of course." He left Ireland 1,500 years ago in a leather boat to find paradise. Tales of the wonders he and his crew saw and the Monster Territory they encountered during their trip have become part of Irish legend. And legend also says that the island of unsurpassed beauty that St. Brendan called paradise was actually America.

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