Dreams of Discovery: A Novel Based on the Life of the Explorer John Cabot

✍ Scribed by Jule Selbo

• Book ID: 111068420
• Publisher: Mentoris Project
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 154 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781386944966
• ASIN: B07HJC18VX

✦ Synopsis

A determined man with a dream whose mentors and friendships supported him through his difficult life's journey.

John Cabot was born Giovanni Caboto in Genoa, Italy. As a child, he dreamed of captaining a ship across a mysterious, uncharted ocean, from Europe to the riches of China. There was another boy in Genoa at the same time, with the same dream: Christopher Columbus.

The Turks, in the fifteenth century, had a stranglehold on the trade routes to the Far East. Europe's race to find an alternative passage was heating up. But an explorer needed patrons, funds, ships--and a vision. Whereas Columbus had taken a south and west route from Spain, Cabot was convinced a more northern route from England would lead directly to China.

Cabot remained convinced, even on his deathbed, that he'd reached China--not realizing he'd claimed much of North America for his patron, the King of England, and made an amazing contribution to the fabric of America.