Europe's efforts to gain control of the New World form the background of this biography of Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle, the first explorer to sail the length of the Mississippi. Johnson uses evidence from the recent discovery of La Salle's sunken ship in the Gulf of Mexico to piece together what happened on his last voyage.
- ISBN10 0815412401
- ISBN13 9780815412403
- Publish Date 19 August 2002
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 21 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English