The Discoverers of America
- ISBN-10
- 0684192179
- ISBN-13
- 9780684192178
- Category
- America
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Author
- Harold Faber
Description
A look at the dozens of explorers who reached the "New World" long before Columbus did discusses everyone from the native American tribes, through the Vikings and European explorers, to the explorers of Alaska and Hawaii.
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