TY - BOOK AU - West,David AU - Gaff,Jackie TI - Christopher Columbus: the life of a master navigator and explorer SN - 1404202439 (lib. bdg.) AV - E111 .W465 2005 U1 - 970.01/5/092B 22 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Book House KW - Columbus, Christopher KW - Explorers KW - America KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Spain KW - Discovery and exploration KW - Spanish N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index; 600 ; Lexile estimate; L ; Raz-Plus estimate N2 - Before Christopher Columbus's voyages to the West Indies and Central and South America, Europeans knew nothing of the Americas in the New World. His four journeys, beginning in 1492 and ending in 1504, blazed a sea route west across the Atlantic Ocean UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0417/2004008645.html ER -