"Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland...

Learn about the explorer Christopher Columbus and his four voyages to the New World. Introduces the life and accomplishments of the Italian explorer and provides activities based on nautical concepts and the era in which he lived.

"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Profiles the life of the fifteenth-century explorer who opened up the Americas to the Europeans.

Examines the efforts of such brave men as John Cabot, Henry Hudson and Roald Amundsen to find the Northwest Passage.