La Salle
Subtitle: La Salle and the Mississippi River
By: by Ann Heinrichs.
Series: Exploring the world
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687 -- Juvenile literature.; La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.; Explorers -- Mississippi River Valley -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers.; Mississippi River Valley -- Discovery and exploration -- French -- Juvenile literature.; Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803 -- Juvenile literature.; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Juvenile literature.; Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- French.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France not only that river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.