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Dreams of Discovery: A Novel Based on the Life of the Explorer John Cabot
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781947431164
Publisher: Barbera Foundation Inc
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A determined man with a dream whose mentors and friendships supported him through his difficult life's journey.
John Cabot was born Giovanni Caboto in Genoa, Italy. As a child, he dreamed of captaining a ship across a mysterious, uncharted ocean, from Europe to the riches of China. There was another boy in Genoa at the same time, with the same dream: Christopher Columbus.
The Turks, in the fifteenth century, had a stranglehold on the trade routes to the Far East. Europe's race to find an alternative passage was heating up. But an explorer needed patrons, funds, ships--and a vision. Whereas Columbus had taken a south and west route from Spain, Cabot was convinced a more northern route from England would lead directly to China.
Cabot remained convinced, even on his deathbed, that he'd reached China--not realizing he'd claimed much of North America for his patron, the King of England, and made an amazing contribution to the fabric of America.
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