The Discoverers by Marshall Cavendish

Living Past Series

Grade:  4-8

Summary:  The early discoverers had to overcome real and imagined dangers and endure weariness, starvation, an ddisease in their search for trade routes and new lands. In the early days, sailors crossed unknown seas with simple navigational instruments in ships that were surprisingly cramped and ill-equipped for making long sea journeys.

Includes information on the Far East, Discovery of the Americas, Montezuma, Search for a Northwest Passage, Captain Cook, Siberia, Japan, and more!

This book tells the exciting story of how the map of our modern world was slowly, and painfully, built up over the centuries by these brave men. 

Book Details: 64pages
Condition: hardcover, ex lib book with library pocket and label on front endpage. addditional information about the book including summary are pasted inside the back cover. corners of cover and spine edges have wear with boards partially exposed. .