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    <title>The discovery of the Americas</title>
    <subTitle>From prehistory through the age of Columbus</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Maestro, Betsy</namePart>
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    <namePart>Maestro, Giulo</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Harper Collins Publisher</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1991</dateIssued>
    <edition>First Paperback edition 1992 </edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>48 pages :  color illustrations ;  28 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>Discusses both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to America by the Phoenicians, Saint Brendan of Ireland, the Vikings, and such later European navigators as Columbus, Cabot, and Magellan.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">By Betsy and Giulo Maestro</note>
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    <topic>Christopher Columbus</topic>
    <topic>American history</topic>
    <topic>Discovery of America</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">E101 .M29</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">917.041</classification>
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