BOOKS by Ronald Stobbs Syme, William

De Soto, finder of the Mississippi. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the Spanish explorer who searched for gold in Florida and who was the first white man to cross the Mississippi River.

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Bolívar, the liberator. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the man who devoted his life to liberating South America and who, at the peak of his career, was president of five South American countries.

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Francisco Pizarro, finder of Peru. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

Relates the career of the Spanish soldier famed as the conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru.

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Benedict Arnold: traitor of the Revolution. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the Revolutionary War General discussing the reasons he became a traitor.

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Balboa, Finder of the Pacific

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Captain John Paul Jones, America's fighting seaman. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

As John Paul his career was undistinguished except that he was charged twice for murder; as John Paul Jones he became the founder of the American Navy and won recognition as a maritime hero.

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Marquette and Joliet: voyagers on the Mississippi. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the two seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first to chart the course of the Mississippi River.

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William Penn : founder of Pennsylvania more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

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Frontenac of New France. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the governor of seventeenth-century New France and a history of the territory he governed relating how he welded an isolated people into a united colony capable of self-defense.

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John Cabot and his son Sebastian. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the Venetian explorer and his son both of whom made several voyages of discovery for England including the discovery of the North American continent in 1497.

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Vancouver; explorer of the Pacific coast. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the English explorer whose four and a half year search for the legendary Northwest Passage produced charts and records that helped open up the Pacific Northwest.

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Toussaint; the Black liberator. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the eighteenth-century slave who led his people in the struggle for an independent Haiti.

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Amerigo Vespucci, scientist and sailor. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of Amerigo Vespucci, whose discoveries of the American Continent remained unrecognized for many centuries.

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Verrazano, explorer of the Atlantic Coast. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the Italian who explored the Atlantic Coast from Cape Fear to Cape Breton discovering New York and Narragansett bays during his voyages.

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Cortez, conqueror of Mexico. more books like this

by Ronald Syme

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