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In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years' War, known in America as the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As historian Francis Parkman wrote, "half a continent .. changed hands at the scratch of a pen." Colin Calloway reveals in this history how the Treaty set in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences. Indians...

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.

A biography of Samuel de Champlain, the sixteenth-century explorer best known for discovering and mapping the Great Lakes region.

Biography of Samuel de Champlain, called "the father of New France," the explorer of the country now known as Canada.

"The heartwarming story of how one hungry American with a hankering for pancakes founded the first American-style diner in Paris"--

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.

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...

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...

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.