Discusses the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers who landed in the Americas and returned to Europe believing that they had discovered a new world.
Discusses the quest of Portuguese explorers to find a route around Africa to Asia, focusing on the adventures of such famous leaders as Prince Henry the Navigator, Bartholomeu Dias, and Vasco da Gama.
Discusses the adventures of the first French explorers of North America, including Giovanni da Varrazano, Jacques Cartier, Étienne Brûlé, Samuel de Champlain, and Jean Nicolet.
Discusses the nineteenth-century exploration of the western United States, including the adventures of George Wheeler, Clarence King, W. V. Hayden, and John C. Fremont.
Profiles the men who explored America's western frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Zebulon Pike.
Discusses the sixteenth-century exploration of the American southwest by Spanish adventurers, particularly the expeditions of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Francisco Coronado.
Discusses the sixteenth-century exploration of Florida, from the early attempts of Ponce de Leon, Panfilo de Narvaes, and Hernando de Soto to the successful establishment of the settlement at St. Augustine.
Discusses the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522, in which a crew led by Ferdinand Magellan found a westward route through the Americas and became the first to circumnavigate the world.