Provides an account of Cartier's journey to discover a water route between France and China in the 1500s.

Discusses the activities of some of the first French explorers who came to North America beginning in the late sixteenth century, including Giovanni Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, Étien Brûlé, and others.

This book follows French explorer Jacques Cartier to the New World where he claimed the new territory called Canada for France.

Brief text describes the life and travels of the sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China.

Describes the life of La Salle, the French explorer who led expeditions to North America, and the Ohio and Mississipi rivers.

An account of the expedition led by two Frenchmen, a soldier and a priest, to explore the Mississippi River in the late seventeenth century.