North American Exploration
A comprehensive, highly readable reference
This is an authoritative, one-stop resource for essential information on the exploration of North America, from alleged pre-Columbian explorers to polar expeditions in the twentieth century. Completely up-to-date in content and historical approach, the book is divided into seven sections, each covering a major area of exploration. Vivid, narrative entries bring to life early expeditions (e.g., African and Scandinavian voyages, real and apocryphal), voyages of European explorers, Western expeditions, and explorations of the Arctic. From the Atlantic seaboard to the Appalachians to the Mississippi to the northernmost regions, readers will discover the Native nations, geographical features, private and governmental institutions, and settlements that played a role in the history of exploring the continent. Maps, photos, and sidebars with lively first-person accounts from contemporary diaries, reports, and news accounts round out this thorough examination of the numerous adventures taken around the continent.
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Book details
- Author
- Michael Golay
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 528
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › Reference
- Topics
- expeditions · pre-Columbian explorers · European explorers · Arctic exploration · historical reference · New World discoveries
- ISBN-13
- 9780471391487
About the author
MICHAEL GOLAY is a former journalist and history teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy who has published several books on American history. His recent books include America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal, Critical Companion to William Faulkner and The Tide of Empire: America’s March to the Pacific.
A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize in American History. Golay has also served as faculty adviser to The Exonian, the oldest preparatory school newspaper in the United States.
When he’s not writing, Golay teaches history at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he has also co-authored titles including North American Exploration with John S. Bowman.
Michael lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.