In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank-not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering...

Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept.

"Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance" -- Cover

This book consists of the reprinted full translation of the Las Casa abridgement of Christopher Columbus' log of his first voyage to America.

In 1607 a group of some 100 colonists began building the first English colony in America on the banks of Virginia's James River. After a series of disasters that nearly wiped the colony out, the leader who emerged was a redoubtable commoner named John Smith. His writings on the Jamestown adventure form a riveting tale of hardship and triumph in the wilderness. Focusing on Smith's two and a half years in Jamestown, this edition of his work details...