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Follows French exploration to the New World which led to a claim on huge tracts of land in North America. Discussions of influential explorers such as Cartier and Verrazano, their voyages, and ventures into new lands.

Describes what life was like in the first French colonies in the Americas.

Text and illustrations survey French explorer Jacques Cartier's search for a water route across the Americas in the sixteenth century, describing Cartier's life before his voyages, his land claims in Canada, his crew's harsh Canadian winter in 1535-36, and the troubled Roberval Colony, providing a glossary, lists of important dates and people, and selected further resources.

A biography of the man who explored the St. Lawrence, Ohio, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers, and who claimed America's heartland for King Louis XIV and France.

Describes the achievements and the life of seventeenth-century French explorer Ren?-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle, who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River.

Traces the expeditions of six French explorers in the New World: Cartier, de Champlain, Duluth, Joliet, Marquette, and La Salle.

A biography of Jacques Cartier, the 16th century French explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River during his explorations of Canada.

A history of the French in North America from the earliest explorers to today's separatist movement in Quebec.

A biography of the Italian who explored the Atlantic Coast from Cape Fear to Cape Breton discovering New York and Narragansett bays during his voyages.