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. Fr...
Christopher Columbus's first journey across thousands of miles of unknown ocean, amid a mutinous crew, was not only one of the most significant achievements of recorded human history but also a demonstration of his supremacy as mariner and navigator....
One of the most eminent historians of the twentieth century here describes the great voyages of discovery to the New World. Morison personally retraced the voyages of the early explorers, charting his travels in maps and photographs, then compared th...