Author: Henry Garfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439116555
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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1498. Sebastian Cabot age fifteen, can only wait and wonder. His famous father has abandoned him at home in Bristol, England, but has taken the boy's older and younger brothers, Ludovico and Sancio, on his second voyage in search of the Asian mainland. On his first journey, sailing north across the Western Ocean in 1497, John Cabot had discovered the New Found Land. He returned to England a hero. Five years earlier, Spain had given Christopher Columbus a similar welcome. He had found Asia, he claimed. And by a southern route. Cabot was skeptical and set out to the north again to prove his old friend a fraud. But silence followed. Now, Sebastian and history are confronted with a tantalizing mystery. What has become of Cabot's second endeavor? Letters to the boy from fourteen-year-old Sancio tell of a fearsome storm and its aftermath. They, and the surprising climax to Sebastian's and Sancio's shared story, make for unforgettable voyaging.
Author: Samuel Edward Dawson
Publisher: J. Hope
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Author: Evan T. Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995619302
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Richard Hakluyt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Author: Christopher Columbus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Henry Percival Biggar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Author: P. L. Firstbrook
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Limited
ISBN: 9780771031212
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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On 24 June 1497, the Genoese adventurer John Cabot, bearing letters patent from King Henry VII, became the first European known to have set foot in North America. (Cabot’s contemporary, Christopher Columbus, never actually landed in North America. To his dying day he thought it was the Orient.) Cabot’s triumphant appropriation of the “New Founde Land” for England capped one of the great maritime adventures of the late fifteenth century. Five hundred years later, the Matthew, a painstakingly constructed replica of Cabot’s three-masted caravel, sailed from Bristol, England, to Bonavista, Newfoundland. Her arrival marked the culmination of a maritime adventure as daring in its way as the voyage it commemorates. This time, however, the trials of the captain and sailors on board were recorded on camera and in reporters' notebooks for armchair onlookers to enjoy. Peter Firstbrook has been intimately involved in the recreation of Cabot’s voyage, from the laying down of the modern-day Matthew’s keel in 1993 to its sea trials in 1996 and the voyage itself in 1997. In these pages he relates all that is known about the fifteenth-century adventurer and describes the many challenges that confronted the team that set out to replicate his voyage. The book concludes, like Cabot’s own life, with a mystery: there is no record of how the great seafarer ended his days. He may have simply retired. He may have been lost in a storm on his last attempted voyage to America. Or he may, in fact, have returned to the newly discovered continent only to be murdered by a notorious Spanish buccaneer. This is a finely wrought story of adventure and discovery that will delight and entertain readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author: Samuel Edward DAWSON
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: James Alexander Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789060727027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: James Alexander Williamson
Publisher: London : Argonaut Press
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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