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Product Description: Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest — and a far more ambitious self-promoter, too, so reputed for his truculence that the pilgrims of the Mayflower snubbed him when he offered them his services, though he was the unrivaled expert on America...read more
Hardcover:
9781851689507 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, October 14, 2014, cover price $30.00
9780324004502, titled "Multinational Finance" | South-Western Pub, August 1, 1999, cover price $189.95 | also contains Multinational Finance
Paperback:
9781780747101 | Oneworld Pubns Ltd, September 15, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how she saved John Smith.
Hardcover:
9780806144979, titled "�lvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca: American Trailblazer" | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 10, 2014, cover price $26.95
Product Description: Seventeenth-century North America was a dangerous, untamed land, a vast wilderness where settlers, fur traders, and missionaries all struggled to eke out an existence. But the New World was also a place that attracted a special breed—men with a thirst for adventure and discovery...read more
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9781559702195 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, May 6, 1994), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A biography of the French explorer focuses on his journeys from Quebec to Louisiana, and his role in the overall exploration of North America
Paperback:
9781611458800 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, October 1, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seventeenth-century North America was a dangerous, untamed land, a vast wilderness where settlers, fur traders, and missionaries all struggled to eke out an existence.
9781559702942 | Arcade Pub, May 25, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Robert Chevalier de la Salle, the French historian Anka Muhlstein writes, stands indisputably among Europe's most accomplished explorers.
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9781476502427 | Capstone Pr Inc, July 1, 2013, cover price $26.65
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9781476534060 | Fact Finders, July 1, 2013, cover price $7.95
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9781477701331 | Powerkids Pr, January 15, 2013, cover price $10.60
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9781477700747 | Powerkids Pr, January 15, 2013, cover price $26.25
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9780143122104 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 25, 2012), cover price $20.00
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9780393918151 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 25, 2012, cover price $18.50
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9781107001213 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2012, cover price $84.99
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9780876112519, titled "�lvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca: The Great Pedestrian of North and South America" | Texas State Historical Assn, February 22, 2012, cover price $15.95
Product Description: From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history...read more
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9781410441157 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 12, 2011), cover price $32.99 | About this edition: From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer.
9780670023011 | Viking Pr, September 20, 2011, cover price $35.00
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9780465068418 | Basic Books, January 5, 2009, cover price $16.99
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9780981600222 | Independent Pub Group, October 1, 2008, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780324004502 | South-Western Pub, August 1, 1999, cover price $189.95 | also contains A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America
Product Description: In 1497, the first Europeans set foot on the N. Amer. mainland & claimed it for England. Led by John Cabot, a small band of sailors braved the stormy, uncharted seas of the North Atlantic in a single, three-masted sailing ship. Yet remarkably little is known about John Cabot or his daring life...read more
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9780771031212 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 1497, the first Europeans set foot on the N.
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9780756754242, titled "Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America" | Diane Pub Co, January 1, 1997, cover price $19.00
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9780961142247 | Security Dupont Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Book by Pohl, Frederick Julius
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9780313220319, titled "Christopher Columbus: Being the Life of the Very Magnificent Lord, Don CristñObal Colñon" | Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1979, cover price $140.00
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9780853453796 | Monthly Review Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.
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9780853456001 | Monthly Review Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: "The book is an idea that has finally found its time.
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