This exciting nonfiction book brings the exploration and discovery of the New World to life through lively images, engaging facts, and supportive text. Readers will take a trip through history and the Age of Discovery as they learn about such explorers as Marco Polo, Christopher Colombus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Henry Hudson. Readers will love the the brilliant images of maps and documents that show the American Discovery, the Northwest Passage, and other explorations. The table of contents and glossary work to aid in readers' understanding of the content.