The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters
Biographies, Journals, and Letters of DiscoveryBy Stephen Leacock, Edward Everett Hale, Julius E. Olson, Thomas A. Janvier, Frederick A. Ober, Charles W. Colby, Elizabeth Hodges
Length30h 4m
About this audiobook
The Great Explorers of North America assembles biography, historical documentation, journals, and letters into a capacious account of exploration as adventure, imperial project, scientific inquiry, and cross-cultural encounter. Its varied forms move between interpretive narrative and the immediacy of primary testimony, allowing readers to compare retrospective legend with voices recorded amid travel, uncertainty, and discovery. Particularly compelling are the firsthand materials, whose observations reveal both the practical demands of movement through unfamiliar territories and the assumptions that shaped colonial description. The volume brings together Stephen Leacock, Edward Everett Hale, Julius E. Olson, Thomas A. Janvier, Frederick A. Ober, Charles W. Colby, and Elizabeth Hodges, writers and historians whose collective interests span popular historical narration, regional memory, geography, and cultural encounter. Their contributions belong to a tradition of North American historical writing that sought to make formative journeys intelligible to broad audiences. Read together with the documents they preserve, these distinct voices illuminate the contested processes by which landscapes, routes, peoples, and nations were represented. This collection is recommended for readers seeking a multifaceted introduction to North American exploration. Its combination of biography and archival evidence offers valuable practice in reading history across genres, while its differing perspectives invite reflection on exploration's achievements, costs, and enduring narratives.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length30 hrs 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2Introduction
3The Saga of Eric the Red
4The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book
5From Adam of Bremen’s Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis
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6From the Icelandic Annals
7Papal Letters Concerning the Bishopric of Gardar in Greenland During the Fifteenth Century
8Christopher Columbus
9CHAPTER I — EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS
10CHAPTER II — HIS PLANS FOR DISCOVERY
11CHAPTER III — THE GREAT VOYAGE
12CHAPTER IV — THE LANDING ON THE TWELFTH OF OCTOBER
13CHAPTER V — LANDING ON CUBA
14CHAPTER VI — DISCOVERY OF HAYTI OR HISPANIOLA
15CHAPTER VII — COLUMBUS IS CALLED TO MEET THE KING AND QUEEN
16CHAPTER VIII — THE SECOND EXPEDITION SAILS
17CHAPTER IX — THE NEW COLONY
18CHAPTER X — THE THIRD VOYAGE
19CHAPTER XI — SPAIN, 1500, 1501
20CHAPTER XII — FOURTH VOYAGE
21CHAPTER XIII — TWO SAD YEARS
22APPENDIX A
23SUMMARY
24APPENDIX B
25APPENDIX C
26John Cabot
27The life of John Cabot
28Original Narratives of the Voyages of John Cabot:
29Letter of Lorenzo Pasqualigo to His Brothers Alvise and Francesco, Merchants in Venice
30Despatch to Ferdinand and Isabella From Pedro De Ayala Junior Ambassador at the Court of England, July 25, 1498
31Amerigo Vespucci
32I YOUNG AMERIGO AND HIS FAMILY 1451-1470
33II AMERIGO'S FRIENDS AND TEACHERS 1470-1482
34III VESPUCCI'S FAVORITE AUTHORS 1485-1490
35IV IN THE SERVICE OF SPAIN 1490
36V CONVERSATIONS WITH COLUMBUS 1492 OR 1493
37VI VESPUCCI'S DEBATABLE VOYAGE 1497-1498
38VII VESPUCCI'S "SECOND" VOYAGE 1499-1500
39VIII WITH OJEDA THE FIGHTER 1499
40IX CANNIBALS, GIANTS, AND PEARLS 1499-1500
41X FAMOUS FELLOW-VOYAGERS 1497-1500
42XI ON THE COAST OF BRAZIL 1501-1502
43XII THE "FOURTH PART OF THE EARTH"
44XIII THE FOURTH GREAT VOYAGE 1503-1504
45XIV KING FERDINAND'S FRIEND 1505-1508
46XV PILOT-MAJOR OF SPAIN 1508-1512
47XVI HOW AMERICA WAS NAMED 1504-1541
48Vasco Núñez de Balboa
49I THE MAN-OF-THE-BARREL 1475-1510
50II LEADER OF A FORLORN HOPE 1510
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