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Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.

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

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.

The last thirty years Maynard has lived in Colorado and hunted in the San Juan region of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Having heard many stories of early trappers and gold miners, he began extensive esearch on Treasure Mountain and the Frenchmen who explored the area. Over the last twelve years he has obtained information from France, Spain, Cananda, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico. Mr. Adams is presently working on another sequel to Citadel Mountain...

This book profiles the explorer who, upon hearing rumors of the Mississippi River, determined first to find it, then to claim it for France and establish French settlements from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

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

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.

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

A biography of the French explorers whose primary goal was to find the Northwest Passage, but who made their mark on history by exploring and charting the Mississippi River.

In December 1994, in the Ardeche Valley of southeast France, three explorers chanced upon the hidden entrance to an underground cavern. Digging away the rubble, they made their way through a narrow passage into a vast cave, and there made one of the most thrilling discoveries of modern times: The Chauvet cave, named for one of the discoverers, which had been untouched for thousands of years. It was filled with Stone Age cave bear skeletons and footprints,...