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CALL NUMBER	AUTHOR-TITLE
910 BRI	Brierley, Anthony. Explorers of the ancient world. New York : Peter Bedrick Books, [1996], c1995.
910 FLO	Flowers, Sarah, 1952-. The age of exploration. San Diego : Lucent Books, c1999.
930 OBR	Obregón, Mauricio. Beyond the edge of the sea : sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and other explorers of the ancient world. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2001.
940.2 PRI	Price, Christine, 1928-. Made in the Renaissance, : arts and crafts of the age of exploration,. [1st ed.]. New York, : Dutton, [1963].
970.01 DYS	Dyson, John, 1943-. Columbus--for gold, God, and glory. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1991.
972.9 ROU	Rouse, Irving, 1913-. The Tainos : rise & decline of the people who greeted Columbus. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1992.
985 HOW	Howard, Cecil. Pizarro and the conquest of Peru,. 1st ed. New York, : American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade and institutional distribution by Harper & Row, [1968].
985 MAR	Marrin, Albert. Inca & Spaniard : Pizarro and the conquest of Peru. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1989.
B COLUMBUS	Columbus, Christopher. Across the ocean sea; : a journal of Columbus's voyage. [Harpercrest library ed.]. New York, : Harper & Row, [1966].
B COLUMBUS	Meltzer, Milton, 1915-. Columbus and the world around him. New York : F. Watts, 1990.
B COLUMBUS	Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976. Admiral of the ocean sea, : a life of Christopher Columbus,. Boston, : Little, Brown and company, 1942.
B COLUMBUS	Rienits, Rex. The voyages of Columbus. New York : Crescent Books :, 1989.
B COLUMBUS	Wilford, John Noble. The mysterious history of Columbus : an exploration of the man, the myth, the legacy. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, 1991.
B CORTES	Wepman, Dennis. Hernán Cortés. New York : Chelsea House, c1986.
B ERIKSSON	Shippen, Katherine Binney, 1892-. Leif Eriksson, first voyager to America. [1st ed.]. New York, : Harper & Row, [1951].
B VESPUCCI	Arciniegas, Germán, 1900-. Amerigo and the New World : the life & times of Amerigo Vespucci. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1955.
OVERSIZE 910.92 INT	Into the unknown : the story of exploration. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1987.
OVERSIZE 910.92 NOV	Novaresio, Paolo. The explorer : from the ancient world to the present. 1st ed. New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996.

OPAC (Online public access catalog - Subject Heading examples)

America -- Exploration.
Discoveries in geography -- History -- 15th century	Discoveries in geography -- History -- 16th century
Explorers	Explorers -- Biography
Explorers -- Mexico -- Biography	Explorers -- Spain -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)	Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
Mississippi River Valley -- History	Native Americans -- Government relations -- United States -- Sources
United States -- Territorial expansion	Voyages and travels -- History
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration	West (U.S.) -- Exploration
In addition to book titles, WebPath Express (an added feature of the library's OPAC) will direct you to web sites on the subject you choose. You will not be able to link from this page. Search the library's OPAC to find these entries.
WebPath Express Results on "Balboa, Vasco Nunez de, 1475-1519"	WebPath Express Results on "Cabot, Sebastian, 1474 (ca.)-1557"
WebPath Express Results on "Columbus, Christopher"	WebPath Express Results on "Hudson, Henry, d. 1611"
WebPath Express Results on "Magellan, Ferdinand, d. 1521"	WebPath Express Results on "Pizarro, Francisco, ca. 1475-1541"

Online Databases : ( You will need to use the correct usernameand password of each database.
Please see the librarian for a complete listing of the database passwords. )

Enchanted Learning

Biography Resource Center

World Book Encyclopedia

Websites (click on the links below) :

The Mariner's Museum - mini biographies of various explorers

The Mariner's Mueseum - contains timelines, vocabulary, and bibliographies.

Age of Discovery - A wikipedia article.

The Age of Exploration

Explorers : Cybrary.org website - good general website. Covers all aspects of exploration and explorers.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Europe and the Age of Exploration

Seattle Art Museum - Marine Navigation in the age of Exploration - shows the various tools used by navigators.

National Maritime Museum/Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England -explores maritime, sea and ships

European Exploration from earliest times to 1497

The Age of Exploration - good source for PRIMARY SOURCE documents.

The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration: prepared by a Social Studies teacher, Mr. Nussbaum.
This web sites includes biographies and a general introduction to the time period.

European Voyages of exploration - the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Study Sphere web site - contains information regarding all aspects of the Age of Exploration.

There are links to other websites.
Explorers of the World - various explorers are profiled.

Good general website for all explorers - listed in alphabetical order

Biographies -- Explorers