Vasco Nunez De Balboa

by Frederick A. Ober

Book Overview

SOMETIME in the summer of the year 1501 there landed on the southern coast of Santo Domingo one of the strangest expeditions that ever visited its shores. It was commanded by one Rodrigo de Bastidas, a rich notary of Seville, in Old Spain, who had become imbued with a passion for adventure, and so set forth, with a company contained in two caravels, over the route followed by Christopher Columbus in his third voyage to America. As he was guided by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517126134
• ISBN13: 9781517126131
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"