Record #:

13520

Author(s):

Walser, Richard

Abstract:

In March 1524, thirty-two years after Columbus' discovery of the New World, the first white man, Giovanni da Verrazano, visited the shores of what is now North Carolina. Though a native of Florence, Italy, he was a navigator at the time in the employ of the King of France.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 21 Issue 39, Feb 1954, p3-4, f

Subject(s):

Verrazano, Giovanni da, 1485?-1527