Christopher Columbus Wikimedia Commons
WELCOME TO
NEW WORLD EXPLORATION,
a site focused on the experiences of those who discovered and explored the New World from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
Columbus started a 400 year series of adventurers who were drawn to explore the New World, both along its coasts and deep into its interior. Here you can share their experiences through narrative accounts of their ventures, along with maps and snippets of explorers' journals.
NEW WORLD EXPLORATION,
a site focused on the experiences of those who discovered and explored the New World from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
Columbus started a 400 year series of adventurers who were drawn to explore the New World, both along its coasts and deep into its interior. Here you can share their experiences through narrative accounts of their ventures, along with maps and snippets of explorers' journals.
Wikimedia Commons
This website is focused on the men who explored the new world, particularly North America. Their persistence and courage in the face of hardship, hunger, and sometimes hostile natives are an interest for many people today. Their fatal blunders and failures are equally important to understanding those expeditions. The blog, Explorer's Tales, gives accounts of exploration expeditions, often with quotes from the explorer's journals. Some entries discuss important outcomes in science and art from the exploration period. Other blogs cover navigation, sailors, early medicine, and food. We also have an exploration bibliography as an ongoing work in progress.
