SOURCES – 13 famous explorers that changed world history

The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “13 famous explorers that changed world history.”

  1. Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth
  2. First circumnavigation
  3. The Travels of Marco Polo
  4. Instructions from the Admiralty
  5. L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada
  6. Across North Africa to Cairo: 1325
  7. Francis Drake
  8. Mexico, 1400–1600 A.D.
  9. History of British Antarctic Survey ships
  10. Captain Robert Falcon Scott
  11. Colonisation and cultivation: Nutmeg production, labour and ecology on the Banda Islands before and after the conquest of 1621
  12. Da Gama reaches Calicut, India
  13. Negotiating the Surrender of New Netherland