"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage across the Atlantic. But in recent years, as new evidence has come to light, our understanding of history has changed. We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first"--Book jacket.

"An early reader biography focusing on Christopher Columbus"--

After Columbus came explorers from all corners of the world, reaching the shores of the New World to reap untold riches, seek new routes to the Far East, and gain a place in history. Here are the stories of adventurers who conquered an unknown land and its people.

"The real history of the New World and the visitors, from both East and West, who traveled to the Americas long before 1492. Provides more than 300 photographs and drawings, including Celtic runes in New England, Gaelic inscriptions in Colorado, and Asian symbols in the West. Reinterprets many archaeological finds, such as the Ohio Serpent Mound. Reveals Celtic, Hebrew, Roman, early Christian, Templar, Egyptian, Chinese, and Japanese influences in...

A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarily to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even tourists. Based on primary accounts, Calloway's book illuminates...