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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.

This book describes the life of Jacques Cartier, who led several expeditions to Canada for the French king, Francis I.

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.

A biography of the French explorer who led the first European expedition to track the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

This book is a brief biography of the French explorers who were the first Europeans to locate and chart the Mississippi River.