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Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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...
4) La Salle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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.