Found 1,715 results for "American Discovery and exploration"
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
by Jules Verne
THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...
by Stanley H. Palmer, Dennis Reinhartz
by Washington Irving
Columbus had anticipated repose from his toils on arriving at Hispaniola, but a new scene of trouble and anxiety opened ...
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
I, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, citizen and Regidor of the most loyal city of Santiago de Guatemala, one of the first disco...
by Jon Krakauer
Jim Gallien had driven four miles out of Fairbanks when he spotted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, ...
by Snorri Sturluson
1. The earth's round face, whereon mankind dwells, is much cleft because great gulfs run up into the land from the ocean...
by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie De Bonneville
by Stephen E. Ambrose
From the west-facing window of the room in which Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774, one could look out at Roc...
by William Robertson
§ I. The proceedings of Narvaez. § II. Cortes deeply alarmed.