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Introduction
Explorers' Index
Bibliography
Land Bridge to the New World / Prehistory
Crossing the Atlantic / 11th Century
The "New" Continent / 16th Century
Expanding in All Directions / 17th Century
Exploring Westward / 18th Century
Mapping the Northwest / 18th Century
The Pacific Coast / 18th Century
The Arctic and More / 19th Century
Triumph in the High North / 20th Century
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The Mapmakers: An Essay in Four Parts
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Pathfinders and Passageways
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Image: Title page of Thévet's account of Cartier's voyages

Title page of Thévet's account of Cartier's voyages
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Thévet, André. Les Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique, & de plusieurs terres & isles decouvertes de nostre temps. Paris: Héritiers de Maurice de la Porte, 1558.
Source: National Library of Canada
Image: Page from Christopher Columbus's account

A page from Christopher Columbus: His own Book of Privileges, a published facsimile of the original manuscript
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Columbus, Christopher. Christopher Columbus: His own Book of Privileges, 1502. London: B. F. Stevens, 1893.
Source: National Library of Canada
Image: Letters patent granted to John Cabot by King Henry VII

Letters patent for a voyage to discover new lands granted to John Cabot and his three sons by the king of England, Henry VII, at Westminster on March 5,1496
© Public Domain
Photo courtesy of the Public Record Office Image Library, UK

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