In a letter to his king, this explorer records how he left from the Isle of Madeira to view a land filled with common trees and not "Hyrcanian Forests or the wild lands of Scythia."
In a letter to his king, this explorer records how he left from the Isle of Madeira to view a land filled with common trees and not "Hyrcanian Forests or the wild lands of Scythia." He came across a naked old man while visiting a place he called Arcadia and also named the largest waterway he found Vendome. According to map maker Thomas Munster, this explorer's Namesake Sea would lead to a direct path from America to Cathay and India. This man's second and final voyage was funded by merchant Jean Ango as while visiting the Caribbean he was consumed by cannibals. On his first voyage he named the land he discovered Nova Gallia or "Francesca," and that land includes Narragansett Bay, Maine and most of New York Harbor. For 10 points name this Italian explorer that is now the namesake of a Narrows Bridge in New York City.
In a letter to his king, this explorer records how he left from the Isle of Madeira to view a land filled with common trees and not "Hyrcanian Forests or the wild lands of Scythia."
Giovanni de Verrazano