Valiant Navigators: Sailor’s Narratives of Voyages along the New England Coast

1524 – 1624

Valiant Navigators is a classic, primary source history book that is also part of the Knowledge Keepers collection. It features 11 journal accounts and letters of men who explored the American coastline in the years after Columbus.

I love using these original source documents alongside our history lessons, so I’m sharing our reading plan with you! Mystery of History Volume 3 focuses on exploration, Renaissance, Reformation, and the early dawn of American history. Use this simple guide to include these readings with your history lessons.

Download a PDF of this reading list below.

1: Giovanni da Verrazano, 1524 – Narragansett Bay

• Read after MOH Lesson 23: Ulrich Zwingli Leads the Swiss Reformation

2: David Ingram, 1568 – Maine

• Read after MOH Lesson 42: Jeanne d’Albret

3. Bartholomew Gosnold, 1602 – Buzzard’s Bay

• Read after MOH Lesson 49: The Works of William Shakespeare

4. Martin Pring, 1603 – Plymouth Harbour

• Read after MOH Lesson 53: Australian Aborigines 1605

5. Samuel de Champlain, 1605 – Maine and Massachusetts

• Read with MOH Lesson 55: Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson

• 6. George Waymouth, 1605 – St. George’s River

• 7. George Popham and Raleigh Gilbert, 1607 – Kenebeck River

• 8. Henry Hudson, 1609 – Penobscot & Fishing Banks

9. John Smith, 1614 – Monhegan

• Read with MOH Lesson 56: John Smyth: A Separatist of England and

• MOH Lesson 57: The Marriage of Pocahontas 1614

• 10. Thomas Dermer, 1619 – Maine and Cape Cod

11. Christopher Levett, 1624 – York and Portland

• Read after MOH Lesson 59: The Pilgrims Land at New Plymouth 1620 and
• Lesson 60: Squanto, 1621

Read my blog post (and get the PDF) of how to use all of the Knowledge Keepers book in your homeschool at nickitruesdell.com!