René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle
By: by Jim Hargrove.
Series: The World's great explorers
Publisher: Childrens Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687 -- Juvenile literature.; La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.; Explorers -- America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers.; Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature.; Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- French.
Description: A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who, among other exploits, led the first European expedition to track the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 124) and index.