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Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan

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Newbery-Honor winning writer, Jean Fritz, brings history to life once again in 10 true tales of 15th-century European explorers!

True tales of our world’s greatest 15th century explorers, from Bartholomew Diaz and Christopher Columbus to Juan Ponce de Leon and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, are fascinatingly portrayed, complimented with the softly shaded pencil illustrations of Anthony Sir Francis Bacon Venti. Readers are led through a one-hundred-year period when Europeans explored the world and mapped the globe, Even as selfishly feeding their very own curiosity and greed along the way in which. Fritz includes astounding details, which offer young readers with an expanded figuring out of events and the idiosyncrasies of these colorful characters. Venti’s maps clarify the explorers’ routes. Count on Jean Fritz to breathe life into these true tales of the Old World’s fifteen most unusual explorers. It’s history written in a refreshingly new way.

“Even as presenting the salient facts, Fritz approaches them with playful irreverence; accordingly, the often traveled material can seem refreshingly new.”–Publisher’s Weekly 

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