The Atlas Of North American Exploration, From The Norse Voyages To The Race To The Pole

GOETZMANN, WILLIAM and GLYNDWR WILLIAMS

Publication: Prentice-Hall General Reference, 1992, New York

First Edition. Boards. 224pp. Profusely Illustrated. More than 100 Full-Color Maps. Preface. Bibliography. Index. Comprehensive presentation of the exploratory expeditions that were relevant to the discovery of North America, and all of it's various regions. The routes of explorers Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Hernando de Soto, Daniel Boone, Vitus Bering, Lewis and Clark, Admiral Peary, and dozens more are charted, showing the sites of encounters with native inhabitants or rival colonial powers, shipwrecks and uprisings, settlements and trading posts, and the death or disappearance of expeditions. As New in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 51862