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On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 160-something. Did nothing

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Combining in-depth research with an adventurer's spirit to present a radical rethinking and new revelations relating to the Beringia theory of how humans discovered, explored, and settled the American continent.

Opening Up North America, 1497-1800, Revised Edition integrates in a chronological narrative the voyages taken from Florida to Newfoundland, covering the first recorded contact of John Cabot in 1497 through Alexander Mackenzie's journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific in 1793. Through these stories, the geography of northeastern North America is pieced together and the impact European exploration had on Native American society continues...

Young readers learn about the history of North American discovery and exploration, detailing all of the successes, hardships, dangers, and accomplishments of key figures in exploration history. From the mighty Mississippi to the Rockies, up to Canada and down to Mexico, readers will learn about Columbus, Lewis and Clark, Smith, and many more.

Describes the exploration of North America by European seafarers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including the Vikings, Columbus, John Cabot, the Spanish and French explorers, and the search for the North-West Passage.

The settlement of what would become the United States of America was a key period in the nations history. First Settlers: 1492 to 1607 recounts the first camps established on the continent by European settlers. It includes the voyages of Christopher Columbus and Jacques Cartier, as well as other key events in the early settlement of the nation.

Discusses the adventures of the first French explorers of North America, including Giovanni da Varrazano, Jacques Cartier, Etien Brule, Samuel de Champlain, and Jean Nicolet.

In 1684, wearing his father's faded cap, eleven-year-old Pierre Talon joins explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier on an ill-fated expedition to seek the Mississippi River, but after the expedition falls apart Pierre, deathly ill, is taken in by Hasinai Indians. Includes historical facts.