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.

An introduction to the life of seventeenth-century French explorer Rene-Robert Caelier, Sieur de La Salle, who explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

Young Sieur de La Salle didn't think twice before leaving the priesthood in France and setting sail for the New World at the age of twenty-two. This book chronicles his success in finding a route to the Pacific Ocean.