Vespucci -- Magellan -- Bougainville -- La Perouse -- Cook.
Summary:
Program reconstructs European voyages of discovery in the 15th through 18 centuries. Viewers are introduced to Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian merchant who gave his name to the New World; Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese admiral who found the passage to the Pacific; Louis-Antoine Bougainville, the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the globe; French explorer Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse, whose expedition criss-crossed the Pacific, then vanished in Oceania; and James Cook, the English navigator who mapped the eastern coast of Australia.
Series:
The great explorers collection
OCLC:
(OCoLC)387997102
Locations:
PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.