John Cabot: The Discovery of Newfoundland

By: Bernard D. Fardy

ISBN:	1895387353
Page Info:	128 : 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - paper
Publisher:	Creative Publishers

The Explorations of John Cabot and his son, Sebastian, and their landing place in the new world have been a source of speculation and argument for centuries. Newfoundlanders have accepted for all these centuries that Cabot landed at Cape Bonavista. Based on the writings and maps of Sebastian Cabot, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia has also laid claim to Cabot's original landfall. So has the state of Maine.

Fardy uses documentary evidence, Cabot's report of his course and his acknowledged skill as a navigator, to establish his theory as to Cabot's actual landing place. He also provides a series of profiles relating to Cabot, his home port, his contemporaries and his King, to help set the scene. It makes interesting reading.