The all-in-one journey planner and shuttle guide-now absolutely revised and updated-will steer you down the main scenic street at any time when. From Florida's highway to Flamingo to Hawaii's Oahu Coastal Loop . . . from British Columbia's Sea to Sky road to Cape Cod's Sandy shorelines . . . every one featured street journey is pictured in wonderful complete colour and defined in bright textual content, keyed to an easy-to-follow newly revised map. no matter if you decide a force in a much nook of the continent or a again street on your personal kingdom, this booklet is your price ticket to North America's most pretty byways.
Drives are grouped in 4 pictured-packed sections-Western, Mountain, principal, and japanese states and provinces-and are followed through special, easy-to-use maps. New drives that includes a few of Canada's such a lot attractive locations were additional. As an advantage, convenient journey Tip sidebars include:
- Mileage
- most sensible season to travel
- within reach attractions
- exact events
- "Learn more" touch info together with site addresses
- a distinct characteristic referred to as famous person Routes deals thumbnail sketches of shorter yet particularly scenic roads positioned within the similar quarter because the major excursions. extra containers spotlight precise features of the components, together with neighborhood crops, animals, customs, meals, and various historic events.
Whether at the highway or within the convenience of your effortless chair, this newly revised Reader's Digest trip advisor might be a welcome significant other.
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The prospect of a permanent French base on this vulnerable alley of water threatened not only the treasure fleet but Spain’s dominance in Europe. Yet for the staunchly Catholic Spanish crown, driving the French heretics from La Florida was not just a geopolitical necessity but a sacred cause—one that would be undertaken, like those earlier raids by the cutthroat dissenter Jacques de Sores, amid a mood of homicidal reli gious fervor. the clash nearly came at once. If the winds had been friendly, Man rique de Rojas might have made it to the mouth of the Saint Johns just as the French were arriving.
So devastated was Cuba’s first capital that it never fully recov ered and was soon overshadowed in importance by Havana. ” But at least Le Clerc, who may have been Catholic himself, spared the local church. With the arrival of Jacques de Sores in Cuba the following year, Europe’s religious carnage began to spread to the New World. Sores saw himself as a Protestant avenger, a scourge against the false church. So deep was his hatred of Catholics that decades later, when he captured a Portuguese ship en route to Brazil with forty Jesuit mission aries on board, he ordered them thrown into the sea dead or alive, along with their holy images, books, and relics.
It is true that the historian and naturalist Gonzálo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés left an extensive, if crude, pictorial record of his travels in the New World, but even he conceded that he lacked artistic talent and training. And while Spanish authorities regularly asked explorers to bring back information on native 12 PA I N T E R I N A S AVA G E L A N D customs, “no request seems to have been made for drawings,” observed the historians Paul Hulton and David Beers Quinn. The first important European painter in Mexico, Simón Pereyns, did not arrive in the New World until two years after Le Moyne, and, once there, he painted the same things that he would have painted in Spain: religious scenes and portraits of his countrymen.