Author: MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT
Title: Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France
Description: Atlanic / Little, Brown and Company, 1972.. The original first ed. XIX + 299 p., num. ills and maps, bibliogr., index HARDCOVER: (Orig.red cloth,with gilt. titles. . VERY GOOD) ¶ Citing frequently from Champlain's own published accounts of his explorations of New France, Legare chronicles Champlain's intense efforts to publicize, map, and colonize the northeastern shores of North America and the valley of the St. Lawrence. From 1603 until his death in 1635, Samuel de Champlain devoted all of his energies to giving France a foothold in the New World.

Keywords: North America Canada France voyages & travel Expeditions Colonial history


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