Unit 17: Voyages of Discovery and Exploration Picture Books

List of Picture books to go with Unit 17 of Big Ideas through History which covers Sailing Around Africa, Crossing the Atlantic, Circumnavigating the Globe, and the Portuguese.

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Section 49:
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Sailing Around Africa
Section 50:
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Crossing the Atlantic

Section 51:
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Circum- navigating the Globe
Peoples XVII:
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Portuguese

A Long and Uncertain Journey: The 27,000 Mile Voyage of Vasco Da Gama
Sea Route to India
Vasco da Gama (Fact Finders Biographies: Great Explorers)
Vasco Da Gama: First European to Reach India by Sea
Bartolomeu Dias: First European Sailor to Reach the Indian Ocean
Vasco da Gama
Henry the Navigator
Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620
Exploring the Americas (Chester the Crab’s Comics with Content Series)
The Discovery of the Americas
Christopher Columbus: New World Explorer or Fortune Hunter?
Who Were the French Explorers Who Explored North America?
The New World: 1500-1750- Graphic U.S History
Welcome to America! Exploration and Settlement
The Story of North America’s First Explorers
Magellan’s World (Great Explorers)
Little Guides to Great Lives: Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan Sails Around the World
You Wouldn’t Want to Explore With Sir Francis Drake!
A Map and a Mule: A Peace Story of Queen Isabel of Portugal
Pete & Pops- The Conquest of Lisbon and Obidos (Peter Explores Portugal Book 1)
Portugal
Welcome to Portugal