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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
They were a mixed multitude from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland. They moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures, and under different auspices and circumstances. Even the majority that came from England fit no distinct socioeconomic or cultural pattern. They came from all over the realm, from commercialized London and the southeast;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this title, readers will explore North America with Jacques Cartier. Follow Cartier's journey on three voyages seeking the Northwest Passage. Along the way he becomes the first European to sail up the St. Lawrence River.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
This is the biggest, grandest, most sprawling epic ever told, filled with battles and hardship, courage, determination, daring voyages into the unknown, and eye-opening discoveries... From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling, roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the rugged continent that became our country. Here is a masterpiece of...
7) La Salle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book describes the life of Robert Cavalier, sieur de La Salle, who led an expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi River and who claimed the land he explored for France.
11) Sorceress
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
12) Jacques Cartier
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1535, Frances king Francis I sent explorer Jacques Cartier to the New World to search for the Northwest Passage that would lead from China and the East. It was hoped he would also return with ships brimming with riches and gold for the country. Alas, Cartier found neither the elusive passage nor a bounty of riches, but he did find the St. Lawrence River. Readers will learn about the details of Cartiers extensive travels, his encounters...
13) Jacques Cartier
Author
Series
Publisher
Mitchell Lane
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jacques Cartier wondered about the world. Was it flat or round? How large was it? Was there a Northwest Passage-;a way to travel from Europe to Asia without having to sail around Africa? Cartier was a French navigator who had been familiar with the sea from a young age, and he wanted to learn the answers to these questions. In 1534, he was given a commission by King Francis I to find the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia. Instead, he discovered...
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France, not only the river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing Group's Rosen Central
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and travels of Jacques Cartier, the sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This exciting new book outlines how Marquette and Jolliet laid the groundwork for further French colonization of the New World, which led to the claiming of the huge territory of Louisiana.
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