The Discovery of the Americas

The text is useful for both the classroom and at home as it combines beautiful landscape illustrations with factual features: maps, timelines, chronological tables, and easy-to-use appendixes.

“The dazzlingly clean and accurate prose and the exhilarating beauty of the pictures combine for an extraordinary achievement in both history and art.”—School Library Journal

“The Maestros do a real service here in presenting the more familiar explorers in the context of all the migrations that have populated the Western Hemisphere…. An outstanding introduction.”—Kirkus Reviews