John Cabot: The Ongoing Search for a Westward Passage to Asia

Library of Explorers and Exploration

by Marian Rengel

Young people will be absorbed in this story about a Genoese-born navigator who sailed to Newfoundland in command of a British ship in 1497. One year later, he sailed again in search of the Northwest Passage to Asia but failed to return. An engaging tale, this biography of Cabot’s life is filled with interesting details and firsthand accounts of the isolation of life at sea.

112 pages, Library Binding

First published July 1, 2002