The Lost Voyage of John Cabot

1498. Sebastian Cabot age fifteen can only wait and wonder. His famous father has abandoned him at home in Bristol England but has taken the boys older and younger brothers Ludovico and Sancio on his second voyage in search of the Asian mainland. On his first journey sailing north across the Western Ocean in 1497 John Cabot had discovered the New Found Land. He returned to England a hero. . Five years earlier Spain had given Christopher Columbus a similar welcome. He had found Asia he claimed. And by a southern route.. Cabot was skeptical and set out to the north again to prove his old friend a fraud.. But silence followed.. Now Sebastian and history are confronted with a tantalizing mystery. What has become of Cabots second endeavor? Letters to the boy from fourteen-year-old Sancio tell of a fearsome storm and its aftermath. They and the surprising climax to Sebastians and Sancios shared story make for unforgettable voyaging.