A New World Adventure
Animals Christopher Columbus Saw
By Sandra Markle
Illustrated by Jamel Akib
Chronicle Books, 2008
ISBN # 078-0-8118-4916-6
Nonfiction, 46 pages
Would you believe that, once, worms inspired people to explore the world? In fifteenth-century Europe, silk made from the thread of silkworms was more valuable than gold?
After arriving on what he named San Salvador in his search for a route to the Indies and the silk and spices of Cathay, Christopher Columbus found neither the silks and spices he expected, no
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