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Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ ðe βalˈβo.a]; c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, conquistador, and a pirate. He is best known for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean while crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1513. (From Wikipedia) More about Vasco Núñez de Balboa:
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13 additional books about Vasco Núñez de Balboa in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (Impr. del Patronato de huérfanos de intendencia é intervención militares, 1914), by Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale and Real Academia de la Historia (Spain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- El descubrimiento del Océano pacífico (Imprenta universitaria, 1913), by José Toribio Medina (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (Harper, 1906), by Frederick A. Ober (page images at HathiTrust)
- Balboa of Darién, discoverer of the Pacific. (Doubleday, 1953), by Kathleen Romoli (page images at HathiTrust)
- The golden adventures of Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific (John Lane, 1929), by Arthur Strawn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1513-1517). (Imp. de I. Escalante, 1879), by José María Roa Bárcena (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, and Francisco Pizarro. (W. Blackwood; [etc.], 1832), by Manuel José Quintana and Miss Holford (page images at HathiTrust)
- La vida de Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Ginn and Company, 1914), by Manuel José Quintana and George Griffin Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa ; the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, Hernando Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico, and Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru. (Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
- El descubrimiento del oceano Pacifico y la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística; reseña, discursos y documentos relacionados con la solemne sesion verificada en honor de Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, el 25 de septiembre de 1913. (Impr. de la Secretaria de fomento, 1913), by Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Administración de "Razón y fe", 1923), by Constantino Bayle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Life and letters of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, including the conquest and settlement of Darien and Panama, the odyssey of the discovery of the South sea, a description of the splendid armada to Castilla del Oro, and the execution of the adelantado at Acla; a history of the first years of the introduction of Christian civilization on the continent of America. (Greenwood Press, 1970), by Charles L. G. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vasco Nuñez de Balboa : drama histórico en tres actos y un prólogo (Impr. y Fundición de Manuel Tello, 1883), by Pedro de Novo y Colson (page images at HathiTrust)
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