Explorers of North America

Explorers of North America

Amerigo Vespucci bio includes a letter

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

De Balboa

Ferdinand Magellan

Columbus' letter to the King and Queen of Spain 1494

Conquistadors: Cortes and Pizarro

Pizarro

Cortes

Spain

Columbus

http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/c-Columbus/columbus.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/columbus.html

Coronado

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/coronado.htm

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/coronado.htm

De Soto

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/de_soto.htm

Magellan

http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/magellan.php

Italy

Vespucci

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/vespucci.htm

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/eviau/edit557/vespucci/

Portugal

Da Gama

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374a.htm

Cabral

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03128a.htm

England

Cabot

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/sebastian.html

Primary Source

Drake

http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/bio.htm

http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/drake.php

Primary Source

France

Joliet & Marquette

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/jolmar.html

Champlain

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr009.html

Holland

Hudson

http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/hudson.php

Other Resources

Most of the following titles are available through the book clubs and in paperback. Check your library for others.

Around the World in 100 Years by Jean Fritz

Scholastic Atlas of Exploration by Dinah Starkey

Explorers Who Got Lost by Diane Sansevere Dreher

The Usborne Book of Explorers by Everette and Reid

The World in 1492 by Fritz, Paterson, McKissack, Mahy, Highwater

Portraits of Outstanding Explorers by Doris Hunter Metcalf CD-Rom Encyclopedias Encarta, and World Book have extensive biographies of explore

Journals

Columbus: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html

Da Gama: http://www.bitwalla.com/project_x/

Letters

Columbus: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.html

Sailing Ships of the Late 1400's

http://web.calstatela.edu/faculty/eviau/edit557/vespucci/sharron/edit557.htm

Navigation

Dead reckoning: http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/dr.htm

Celestial: http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/cn.htm