Champlain

by Christopher Moore

Francis Back (Illustrator)

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“One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure.” So begins Christopher Moore’s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, daring “father of New France.”

Samuel de Champlain helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World; he established the village that eventually became the great city of Quebec; he was a skilled cartographer who gave us many of our first accurate maps of North America; he forged alliances with Native nations that laid the foundations for vast trading networks;...Read more
  • ISBN10 0887766579
  • ISBN13 9780887766572
  • Publish Date 24 August 2004
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Tundra Books