Download or read book Explorers and Founders of America Classic Reprint written by Anna Elizabeth Foote and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Explorers and Founders of America This book gives biographical sketches of the greatest personalities in the history of America, from the days of the earliest adventurers down to the Revolutionary War, and may be used advantageously in any of the grammar grades. It may be noted in passing that it contains all the biographical material required in the Syllabus of the New York State Education Department for the fifth grade, and also all the sketches required in the course of study for the 5 A and 5 B grades in the city of New York. The material has been put in short sentences expressed in a conversational vocabulary. Each sketch is followed by suggestive topics for oral or written composition and for review, and a considerable amount of map work and outside reading is recommended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Stories of American Explorers written by Wilbur F. Gordy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of American Explorers: A Historical Reader It need hardly be suggested that in using a book like this the problem is to help the pupil to get at the soul of history, or, to put it in another way, to enable him to understand how the man whose life-story is under consideration thought and felt when he was performing the deeds told of him in the text. And in thus helping the pupil we are furnishing him what he desires. For it is more life that he craves, and the teacher is to him an inter preter of that larger life which is to become a part of his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Young Folks Book of American Explorers Classic Reprint written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Young Folks' Book of American Explorers It has always seemed to me that the narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American coast were as interesting as "Robinson Crusoe," and were, indeed, very much like it. This has led me to make a series of extracts from these narratives, selecting what appeared to me the most interesting parts, and altering only the spelling. The grammar is not always correct; but it would be impossible to alter that without changing the style of writing too much: so it has not been changed at all. Wherever it has seemed necessary, I have put a word of my own in brackets [thus]; but all else is the very language of the old writers, or their translators. Whenever any thing has been omitted, great or small, the place is marked by dots... Some of the hardest words have been explained by footnotes. One great thing which I have wished my readers to learn is the charm of an original narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book First Explorers of North America written by Joseph Banvard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Explorers of North America: Or Discoveries and Adventures in the New World From these accounts a correct Opinion may be formed of the kind of experience which those underwent who first traversed the coast and explored the interior of this great continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Books by American Travellers and Explorers written by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Books by American Travellers and Explorers: From 1846 to 1900 Wilkes also published separately a volume, Western America Including California and Oregon Data on the same region are contained in the fourth and fifth of the five narrative volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Heroes of Discovery in America Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Heroes of Discovery in America The explorers of this continent were great men in their day, and they have made a great mark on the his tory of the land they made known. For more than four centuries their work has been kept up and it is not yet complete, for there are areas still in America on which the foot of the white man has not been set. From Columbus, who daringly crossed an unknown ocean to discover an unknown continent, to Peary, who in our own day has time and again plunged into the seas of ice in restless quest of the mysterious pole, the list is a long one and is filled with names of valiant and unconquerable men. Heroes of discovery are these in the highest sense, and it is fitting that the story of their deeds should be put upon record. This we have sought to do, in as full a sense as the space at our command permits, endeavoring to omit none of the great discoverers, none of the leaders in this great drama of the opening of a new world. It is hoped that readers will find these tales full of interest and inspira tion and gain from them an adequate sense of what was accomplished in the great work of exploring a continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Stories of Great Heroes Discoverers Explorers and Christianizers of America Classic Reprint written by James Higgins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of Great Heroes, Discoverers, Explorers, and Christianizers of America AT the present time, educators are putting forth their best efforts to secure for the study Of American History the important place that it deserves in the curriculum of our elementary schools. This commendable movement has the sympathy and the support of all teachers. It stands for progress and efficiency in forming aright the character of the young. It aims at producing the truest, the noblest, and the best specimen of American citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book EXPLORERS FOUNDERS OF AMER written by Anna Elizabeth Foote and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Explorers and Travellers Classic Reprint written by A. W. Greely and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Explorers and Travellers The compiler of a series of sketches of Ameri can Explorers and Travellers experiences at the very outset a serious embarrassment from the superabundant wealth of original material at his command. The history of America for two hundred years after the voyage of Joliet has been the history of courageous, persistent, and successful exploration, wherein the track of the explorer, instantly serving as a trail for the pio neer, has speedily broadened into the wagon road of invading immigrants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America written by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America: Their Voyages, Battles, and Hardships in Traversing and Conquering the Unknown Territories of a New World It has seemed fitting to include in the famous leaders series this volume upon the discoverers and explorers, not only of North America, but also of Central and South America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Discovery and Exploration of America written by Arthur Gilman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Discovery and Exploration of America: A Book for American Boys and Girls No branch of the work of education seems to the author of greater importance than this of giving the young their first impressions of the history of their own land. With a deep sense of this truth, the latest authorities have been made tributary to this volume, and the author has spared no pains to have it correct in every statement of facts, and in the difficult matter of dates. The work is a study of authorities, under the lead of such writers as those who have contributed to Mr. Winsor's invaluable Narrative and Critical History of America, and of those whose works are mentioned in the very extensive notes appended to its different chapters. For other author ities the Library of Harvard College has furnished ample resources, and they have been extensively used. Among the works especially valuable for the period covered by this volume are the narratives of the early navigators, found in the publications of the Hakluyt Society and else where. The young are not qualified to investigate these books, but they contain much that is of great interest to them. The more difficult words are explained at the close of the volume. The author limits the list in the hope that the young reader may not be discouraged by it, and he trusts that teachers will cultivate in them the habit of consulting dictionaries and other works of reference. Such a habit is of great importance, for no book contains all that may be well said on any subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Four American Explorers written by Nellie F. Kingsley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Four American Explorers: Captain Meriwether Lewis; Captain William Clark; General John C. Fremont; Dr. Elisha K. Kane; A Book for Young Americans To the entire region drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries he gave the name of Louisiana, in honor\ of the king. This region included the greater part of What is now the United States. It extended from the Alleghany Mountains to the Rockies, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Journal of His First Voyage to America Classic Reprint written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of His First Voyage to America Be it Remembered, that on the twenty-ninth day of June, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel Kettkll, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, n the words following to wit: "Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America. From a Manuscript recently discovered in Spain. Translated from the Spanish." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned and also to an act entitled, An act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and hooks, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Roald Amundsen written by Roald Amundsen and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1927 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography.
Download or read book The Men Who Found America written by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of biographies focuses on the discoverers and explorers of the New World - written for young readers, this is a superb introduction to the Age of Discovery. Beginning with Christopher Columbus, the man who found the Americas, we proceed to a variety of the world's finest explorers. These bold navigators braved lengthy sea voyages, as well as dangers upon the sea and the land. Some were commissioned by the leaders of different countries, while others strove to explore independently. All were brave and their adventures made many great story books. Some even founded the first colonial villages and little ports in new lands, starting the recorded history of many a new territory. Illustrations of the great explorers accompany the biographies, and the author seeks to make the stories of these historic people entertaining yet accurate. Various legends of the time, such as the golden city of El Dorado, are mentioned. Finding mythical treasure and claiming it would not only make the finder a person of huge wealth, but also secure fame and a legacy that would last long after they had left the world.
Download or read book The History of North America Vol 1 written by Alfred Brittain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of North America, Vol. 1: Discovery and Exploration The statement that we have quoted in our opening para graph but voiced the need that was appreciated throughout the scholastic world. All students desired*a comprehen sive history of America. The stimulus given to historical writing by the lack of such a work found result in the activity of many authors, but, curiously enough, not in at tempts to produce the work needed, but to supply mate rials from which it might be constructed. For example, the last quarter of the nineteenth century was prolific in historical monographs and treatises. Hundreds of well equipped students with valuable resources at their command collected and gave to the world the product of their re search - the data buried in source material. These mono graphic publications, usually written in the form of theses, were of a nature to preclude their wide circulation; they were strictly academic in style and were of no interest to the general reader and, because of their restricted field, of comparatively narrow value to the historian. Yet this monographic literature must not be underestimated, for it was of great value to the limited number of historians seeking information upon the particular subject treated by the monographist. But the theses did not go far toward solving the problem of the production of a comprehensive history. The treatises were a step further in that direction. They were, it is true, limited in scope, but that limitation was not so destructive to their popularity as in the case of the thesis literature, for they were broader in treatment and had more or less perspective. The majority of such publi cations were accurate and had in them elements of interest. Textbooks were published in abundance, but from their nature they cannot be included among comprehensive his tories, nor can those standard and scholarly works upon limited historical periods, which have at infrequent intervals during the last twenty-five years been welcomed by students. During the period under consideration a few general his tories have been published. These are confessedly sketchy, and, with only two exceptions, they have not been written by men of standing among scholars. In these two in stances, the authors have been handicapped by the limits of space and by the fact that no one man is able to write from his own knowledge of the details of American history in the whole, and within the limits imposed by the com mercial necessities of publication produce by his own re search a comprehensive history of the United States, to say nothing of that of North America. A writer undertaking the task must depend on secondary authorities; and, as a rule, he incorporates most of their errors along with their correct statements of fact. No more glaring example of this fallibility of historical writers attempting a task too large can be found than in a recent pretentious general his tory in the compilation of which the author was obliged by the circumstances of production to depend largely on secondary authorities, with the result that more than five hundred errors have been discovered in a single volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book America s Opportunities Classic Reprint written by Dorothy Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from America's Opportunities Early explorers of America went back home in a kind of golden dream. They became traveling salesmen for the new continent they had discovered. Their voices rang with excitement as they told about the great forests, the new animals and plants, and the rich, undeveloped land. Lured by the tales of these first travelers, people began to come over from Europe to the new country. Some, like the Pilgrims, came because in a new land they would be free to worship as they liked. Other colonists came to be farmers, hunters, and trappers in the wilderness. Others came as adventurers, to get rich quick. Some of these people found America a big disappointment. Yet America's opportunities have proved far richer than the explorers dreamed. There was more land than they had dared to imagine. The mineral treasures here proved more valuable, even, than gold. The habit of freedom which has grown up and America's vigorous, hardy people have made America a land of continuing opportunity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
