The Atlas of North American Exploration, From the Norse Voyages

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann and exploration historian Glyndwr Williams, Atlas of North American Exploration presents this bold drama through more than one hundred full-color maps employing state-of-the-art cartographic techniques. The routes of explorers Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Hernando deSoto, 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 disppearance of expeditions. Paper back, 224 pages