Product Description: Like fastfact readers, this core knowledge and curriculum guide offers personal accounts, maps and primary sources and offer the highest quality graphic presentation to thrill young readers. With hundreds of facts about Columbus and the world during the Age of Discovery and Exploration this book will stimulate imaginative and thrilling reading and rereading...read more

Recounts the life of Hernâan Cortâes, the leader of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and places it in the context of the early years of the Spanish empire in the New World and the defeat of the Aztecs.

The illustrated Eastern edition of this practical guide to identifying the nation's wildflowers covers a wide range of species, furnishing updated descriptions, information on distribution and taxonomy, useful tips on how to spot them while in the field, and more than seven hundred close-up, full-color photographs of flowers in their natural settings. 75,000 first printing. (view table of contents)