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Legendary Explorers eBook Series

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  • The Life and Legacy of Ferdinand Magellan

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    Series Book 8 - Legendary Explorers
    Ferdinand Magellan, known in his native Portugal as Fernão de Magalhães and in Spain, where he moved later in life, as Fernando de Magallanes, was unquestionably one of the more remarkable figures of the so-called Age of Discovery, a period in which Europeans spread their political and commercial influence around the globe. Accordingly, his name is often invoked alongside that of Columbus, but the ... Read more

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  • The Life and Legacy of Christopher Columbus

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    Series Book 1 - Legendary Explorers
    “At two o'clock in the morning the land was discovered…As I saw that they were very friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force, I presented them with some red caps, and strings of beads to wear upon the neck, and many other trifles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted, and became wonderfully attached to ... Read more

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  • The Life and Legacy of Hernán Cortés

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    Series Book 3 - Legendary Explorers
    “Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.” – Hernán CortésA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for ... Read more

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  • The Life and Legacy of Francisco Pizarro

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    Series Book 5 - Legendary Explorers
    “Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.” – Francisco PizarroA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential ... Read more

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  • The Life and Legacy of Marco Polo

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    Series Book 7 - Legendary Explorers
    “I have not told half of what I saw.” – Marco PoloA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ Legends of the Middle Ages series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of important medieval men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning ... Read more

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  • The Life of Christopher Columbus – Discover The True Story of the Great Voyage & All the Adventures of the Infamous Explorer (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Voyage, Conquest, and Legend

    by Christopher Columbus, Edward Everett Hale, Wesley Calderwick ...
    The Life of Christopher Columbus brings together historical narrative, documentary testimony, and reflective biography to examine one of the most consequential voyages in world history. Moving between the rhetoric of discovery, adventure, imperial ambition, and moral ambiguity, the volume situates Columbus's Atlantic crossing within the larger literary tradition of exploration writing. Its ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Philippine Islands

    by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Antonio de Morga ...
    In this volume is presented the first installment of Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Events here described cover the years 1493-1603, and the history proper of the islands from 1565. Morga's work is important, as being written by a royal official and a keen observer and participator in affairs. Consequently he touches more on the practical everyday affairs of the islands, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Age of Exploration

    From Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan

    by Kenneth Pletcher ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Adventurers
    The Age of Exploration, which spanned roughly from 1400 to 1550, was the first time in history that European powers—eyeing new trade routes to the East or seeking to establish empires—began actively looking far past their own borders to gain a better understanding of the world and its many resources. The individuals who set out on behalf of the countries they represented came from a variety of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christopher Columbus: A Life from Beginning to End

    Biographies of Explorers

    by Hourly History ...
    Series series Biographies of Explorers
    Everyone knows the name Christopher Columbus—but few truly understand the man behind the legend. Driven by faith and an unshakable belief in his destiny, Columbus set sail into the unknown and changed the course of history forever. This book explores the courage, vision, and controversy surrounding one of the most famous explorers of all time.Discover a plethora of topics such asEarly LifeThe Silk ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Over the Edge of the World

    Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe during the Age of Discovery was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition, prize-winning biographer ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wreckers

    Disaster in the Age of Discovery

    by Simon Park ...
    Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.'Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fairly spark off each other. It could be a model for how academics should write history for a general audience' The Times‘A flowing, gripping narrative, Wreckers is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus

    by Christopher Columbus ...
    Translated by J. Cohen ...
    No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD