Around the world in a hundred years from Henry the Navigator to Magellan
Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps.
Main Author: | Fritz, Jean. |
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Other Authors: | Venti, Anthony Bacon (Illustrator) |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Putnam's,
c1994.
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Subjects: |
Summary: |
Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps. |
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Physical Description: |
128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-124) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780698116382 0399225277 : |
Author Notes: |
Homesick: My Own Story, a collection of linked narratives, traces her life from her girlhood in China to her longed-for yet uneasy passage to America. It won a National Book Award and was named a Newbery Honor Book. She received the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association, the National Humanities Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for her body of work. She died on May 14, 2017 at the age of 101. (Bowker Author Biography) |