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Crossing the continent : 1527-1540 : the story of the first African-American explorer of the American South by Robert Goodwin, Simon Prebble is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A triumph of historical detective work, Crossing the Continent is the remarkable, never-before-told story of the first black explorer and adventurer in America, Esteban Dorantes. An African slave, Dorantes led an eight-year journey from Florida to California in the early sixteenth century—three hundred years before Lewis and Clark ventured west. An extraordinary true-life saga of courage, trials, and discovery that the Philadelphia Inquirer calls, “an adventure story more thrilling than Defoe or
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- Author
- Robert Goodwin, Simon Prebble
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061140440
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Science, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.47 / 5 (66 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Crossing the continent : 1527-1540 : the story of the first African-American explorer of the American South (2008)
- Crossing the continent : 1527-1540 : the story of the first African-American explorer of the American South (2011)
- Crossing the Continent, 1527–1540 : The Story of the First African in American History (2008)
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