Cabrillo : first European explorer of the California coast /

Lemke, Nancy, -1949

Cabrillo : first European explorer of the California coast / written and illustrated by Nancy Lemke. - San Luis Obispo, CA : EZ Nature Books, 1991 - 125 p. : ill., maps 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-122) and index.

Cabrillo, deals mostly with the conquest of New Spain. Facts about Cabrillo's life are just enough to call him a man of action and wisdom. Book also describes Cabrillo's contemporaries. He made his own voyage up the California coast. He is a good man and as such he treats the natives that he encounters with more respect than his fellow conquistadors would.

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Explorers--America
Explorers--Spain

E 125.C12 / .L543 1991