Early Explorers

Ideas to consider: (from your text's Instructor's Manual)

• The explorers were first and foremost navigators and explorers, not writers.
• The explorers had a specific audience in mind; more often than not their investors.
• From the beginning what came to be known as the American Dream is evident in these writers.
• Even at its most sympathetic, the literature of exploration, implicitly or explicitly, considers the Indians not just different, but inferior.
• The literature of exploration is a record of history in the making, a document of the events that befell these early explorers.