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154pp., hardbound with coloured dust-jacket with texts and numerous black & white and coloured photographs and illustrations. ISBN 0-7137-2245-2. Describes the experiences of early European explorers in the New World, including Columbus, Cabot, Verrazzano, and Cartier. Discovering America is a masterful historical account of those mariners’ explorations, sparked by the immediacy of the author’s own travels to the sites of their discoveries. Fifty full-color and over seventy stunning black-and-white photographs complement the throughtful text. The exquisite period maps, engravings and paintings give a vivid panorama of the great age o discovery and of the adventures who sought wealth and glory in a new land.