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 Bartolomeu
Dias led the first
expedition to round the southern tip of
Africa by sea in 1487. In 1500 he was
part of a sea expedition that
inadvertently discovered and named
Brazil. |
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 Vasco
da Gama commanded the first
expedition to reach India by sea from
Europe, in 1498. |
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 John
Ledyard wrote the first
great travel story by an American to be
published in the United States. In
1786-1788 he walked alone from Germany to
eastern Siberia. He died soon after
getting permission to undertake an
expedition to explore the source of the
Niger River in Africa. |
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 Ferdinand
Magellan led the expedition
that ultimately became the first to sail
completely around the world, but did not
live to see the achievement accomplished. |
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