In the Footsteps of Explorers
4 total works
This exciting new book tells the story of the relentless and at times tyrannical explorer Vasco da Gama who helped Portugal search for a trade route to the lucrative spice trade of the Far East. Discover his role in the development of Portuguese spice plantations in India and New World colonies, and his involvement in the slave trade of Africa.
In the mid 1600s, legendary fur traders Radisson and Groseilliers were the first Europeans to explore the upper part of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. This exciting book explains how their trade routes helped open up the mid-west of the United States and Canada and how their discoveries led to the creation of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the oldest corporation in North America. Young readers will also be fascinated to read about Radisson’s early kidnapping by the Iroquois and the rugged life of the voyageur.
Radisson and Des Groseilliers - Fur Traders of the North
by Katharine Bailey
Published 15 March 2006