Download or read book Juan Ponce de Le n written by Jane Sutcliffe and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier, a farmer, a governor, and an explorer, Juan Ponce de León made his very first voyage with the famed Christopher Columbus. As an explorer, Ponce de León may be better known for what he didn't discover the fabled fountain of youth than for what he did discover Florida!
Download or read book Ponce de Le n written by Ann Heinrichs and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come along to discover new worlds with some of the greatest explorers in history. Learn about the geographic, economic, and religous reasons that brought them to new regions. Read about the problems they faced and the impact they had.
Download or read book Juan Ponce de Le n King Ferdinand and the Fountain of Youth written by Anthony Q. Devereux and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the biography of the courageous explorer and successful entrepreneur of Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish exploration of the New World.
Download or read book Juan Ponce de Leon written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2003 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Otfinoski has written more than one hundred fiction and nonfiction books for young readers. His many biographies include books about Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, John Wilkes Booth, Nelson Mandela, and Boris Yeltsin. He has also written books on geography, world history, rock music, public speaking, and writing. He is the author of Marco Polo: To China and Back, Francisco Coronado: In Search of the Seven Cities of Gold, and Vasco Nunez de Balboa: Discoverer of the Pacific in the Great Explorations series. His other works for Marshall Cavendish include the twelve-volume transportation series for early readers Here We Go! and books on New Hampshire, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington State in the Celebrate the States and It's My State! series. Book jacket.
Download or read book Juan Ponce de Le n written by Lynn Hoogenboom and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the life and exploits of the Spanish explorer who sailed among the islands of the Caribbean.
Download or read book Juan Ponce de Leon written by Andrea Pelleschi and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer who established the first European settlement in Puerto Rico. He was also the first European to explore Florida. Readers will follow him on many of his adventures, which included expeditions to find the mythical fountain of youth. Engaging, fact-based text and the comic-book presentation will invoke interest in America's earliest history for even the most reluctant of readers.
Download or read book Love and the Incredibly Old Man written by Lee Siegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” begins one chapter of critically acclaimed Lee Siegel’s new novel, Love and the Incredibly Old Man. “In the beginning” starts another. What else can a novelist do when hired as a ghostwriter by an elderly, irascible, conquistador-costumed man claiming to be the 540-year-old Juan Ponce de León? The fantastic life of that legendary explorer—inventor of rum, cigars, Coca-Cola, and popcorn—is the frame for Siegel’s fourth chronicle of love, lies, luck, loss, and labia. Summoned with cold hard cash and a pinch of flattery, a professor and novelist named Lee Siegel finds himself in Eagle Springs, Florida, attempting to give form to the life of the man who, contrary to popular and historical opinion, did indeed find the Fountain of Youth. Spending humid days listening to the romantic ramblings of the old man and sleepless nights doubting yet trying to craft these reminiscences into a narrative that will satisfy the literary aspirations of his subject, Siegel the ghostwriter spins an improbable tale filled with Native Americans, insatiable monarchs, philandering cantors, deliriously passionate nuns, delicate actresses, androgynous artists, and deceptions small and large. For de León, and for Siegel too, centuries of conquest and colonialism, fortune and identity, are all refracted through the memories of the conquistador’s lovers, each and every one of them adored “more than any other woman ever.” Comic, melancholic, lusty, and fully engaged with the act of invention, whether in love or on the page, Love and the Incredibly Old Man continues the real Lee Siegel’s exuberant exploration of that sentiment which Ponce de León confesses has “transported me to the most joyous heights, plunged me to the most dismal depths, and dropped me willy-nilly and dumbfounded at all places in between.”
Download or read book Francisco L pez de G mara s General History of the Indies written by and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies. Including substantial critical annotations and providing access to various readings and passages added to or removed from the successive editions of the 1550s, this translation expands the archive of texts available to English speakers reconsidering the various aspects of the European invasion of America. General History of the Indies was the first universal history of the recent discoveries and conquests of the New World made available to the Old World audience. At publication it consisted of two parts: the first a general history of the European discovery, conquest, and settlement of the Americas, and the second a detailed description of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico. Part one—in the multiple Spanish editions and translations into Italian and French published at the time—was the most comprehensive, popular, and accessible account of the natural history and geography of the Americas, the ethnology of the peoples of the New World, and the history of the Spanish conquest, including the most recent developments in Peru. Despite its original and continued importance, however, it had never been translated into English. Gómara’s history communicates Europeans’ general understanding of the New World throughout the middle and later sixteenth century. A lively, comparatively brief description of Europe’s expansion into the Americas with significant importance to today’s understanding of the early modern worldview, Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies will be of great interest to students of and specialists in Latin American history, Latin American literature, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well as specialists in Spanish American intellectual history and colonial Latin America.
Download or read book Southeastern Florida Adventure Guide written by Sharon Lloyd Spence and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2009-10-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most detailed guide to the southern Atlantic coast of the Sunshine State a magnet for hundreds of thousands of tourists. The Adventure Guide to Southeast Florida takes you beyond the high-rise condos and urban sprawl to find natural, beautiful South Florida at its best. As with all Adventure Guides, the emphasis is on outdoor activities kayaking, canoeing, deep-sea fishing, scuba diving, turtle- and manatee-watching, and dozens of other ways to have fun. Many sidebar interviews with local experts and guides offer insights on everything from canoeing the Loxahatchee River to swimming with dolphins to seeking out great horned owls! Accommodations, restaurants and sightseeing too. Maps. Adventure Guides are the perfect travel companion for the modern explorer. Whether you're looking to backpack around your home state or boost the number of stamps in your passport by traveling overseas, these books will heighten your travel experience. Our team of knowledgeable authors offers comprehensive introductions that cover history, geography, climate, when to go, transportation, planning and culture. Region-by-region, the books then delve into the heart of the area, with driving tours and side trips to the best museums, historic sites and shops. But the focus is on activities, and you'll learn about the best spots for diving, snorkeling, horseback riding, hiking, biking, rock climbing and more. Extensive listings of recommended tour operators, too. Select places to stay and eat, as well as regional festivals and celebrations. Get soaked by crashing waves along a deserted beach; canoe through mangroves looking for birds; watch as a yellow-bellied turtle snuggles up to a snoozing gator; or reel in a six-foot sailfish. Interviews with the experts -- scuba divers, sky divers, pilots, fishermen and park rangers -- add local flavor. These useful guides are highly recommended... Library Journal. This guide targets travelers eager to explore the destination. Extensively researched, the focus is on outdoor activities - hiking, biking, rock climbing, horseback riding, parasailing, scuba diving, backpacking, and waterskiing, among others - and all the details you need, including prices, are included. The best local outfitters are listed, along with contact numbers, addresses and recommendations. A comprehensive introductory section provides background on history, geography, climate, culture, when to go, transportation and planning. The guide then takes a region-by-region approach, plunging into the very heart of each area and the adventures offered, giving a full range of accommodations, shopping, restaurants for every budget, and festivals. All books have town and regional maps
Download or read book Dream State written by Diane Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State is all Floridian, telling the grand and sometimes crazy story of the twenty-seventh state through the eyes of one of its native daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets and she's ready to tell them. Like the time her cousin state Senator Luther Tucker wrapped his Caddy around a tree, allegedly with a jug of moonshine on the seat next to him. Or how cousin Susan Branford was given an African girl for her eighth birthday. Or the time when cousin Enid Broward was made the May Queen of 1907, even though her daddy the governor shocked the state by trying to drain the entire Everglades. Roberts' ancestors helped settle Florida, kill off its pesky Indians, enslave some of its inhabitants, clear its forests, lay its train tracks, and pave its roads, all the time weaving themselves into the very fabric of this dangling chad of a state. With a storyteller's talent for setting great scenes, Roberts lays out the sweeping history of eight geberations of Browards and Bradfords, Tuckers anf Robertses, even as she Forest Gumps them into situations with more historically familiar names. Whether it's the American court of Catherine de Médicis, the Tallahassee court of Katherine Harris, Henry Flagler's boardroom -- not to mention his bedroom -- or Jeb Bush's statehouse, you're likely to find a branch or a root of the Roberts family growing entangled nearby. Starting in the recent past with the botched presidential election of 2000, Roberts introduces the many sides of the debate, coincidentally peopled with cousins both kissing and close. She then goes back to Florida's first inhabitants, showing how this alluring peninsula many called a paradise played a role in the destiny of those who settled there. Following their colorful progress up to the present, she renders them all with a deep, familial affection. Florida has forced itself into the collective American unconscious with its messed-up elections, anthrax scares, shark attacks,boat lifts, snowbirds, and the Bush dynasty. While exposing the real people whom Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard have been fictionalizing for years, Dream State ultimately reveals the cogs and wheels that make the state tick.
Download or read book Children of the Alliance eBook Three written by Leigh Rose and published by Leigh Rose. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riveting… Page-turning…Filled with historical events, myths, and legends that haunt two families’ redemption, Rose’s Legends on the Rise series is a poignant, revealing period fiction about race and slavery in the colonial slave trade era. The pacing is swift, the action scenes are cinematically developed, and Rose’s moving, assured prose keeps the pages turning..." The Prairies Book Review Setting: Toulon, France: 1754 Senegal, West Africa: 1755 St. Augustine, Florida: 1756 - 1810 Summary: Book 3 - Children of the Alliance, 1754 – 1810 is the prequel to the series. The story-within-a-story encapsulates the legendary saga of the Reiss and Freedman families, recounting the life of Juliette and Claude’s ancestor’s, knight-errant and Captain, Françoise J. Reiss III, and Prince Boukar Semou Jolof, a.k.a. Luis Freedman, a former Senegalese prince and freed slave. It’s the Age of Enlightenment on the European, African and North Atlantic Continents, when a racial divide makes most men enemies Françoise and Luis sacrifice everything to keep their mixed-race families together. The story behind Children of the Alliance will hold you captive to a tumultuous world where trading slaves is second nature and exposes the circumstances surrounding how Juliette’s dowry; the decoratively carved ebony chest and gemstones were acquired by her 4th great-grandfather. Readers are given a glimpse of the ancestors’ journeys with excerpts in Book 1, Mistaken Legacy, and in Book 2, Heiress and Epithet, as Juliette discovers how acquired her heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones.
Download or read book THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Portraits of Outstanding Explorers written by Doris Hunter Metcalf and published by Good Apple. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource book provides information and activity sheets on explorers of North America. The five sections of the book trace the explorers' contributions both geographically and chronologically. Each section includes thought questions, biographical portraits and skill activities for grades 4-8. Section 1, "They Opened the Door," profiles Leif Erikson, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernando Cortez, Giovanni da Verrazano, and Hernando de Soto. "They Navigated Great Lakes and Rivers" examines the contributions of Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Robert de La Salle, and Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. "They Crossed Vast Plains and Deserts" focuses on Estevanico, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, and Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. "They Blazed Western Trails" highlights the work of Sir Francis Drake, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Sacagawea, George Washington Bush, John Charles Fremont and Kit Carson, James Beckwourth, and Isabella Bird Bishop. "They Aim for New Frontiers" chronicles the work of Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson, Louise Arner Boyd, Robert Ballard, Sylvia Alice Earle, Neil Armstrong, Sally Kristen Ride, and Franklin Chang-Diaz. A time line of the explorers, maps of North America, and answers to the activity sheets are provided. (EH)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
