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La Salle: Explorer of the North American Frontier

Robert Chevalier de la Salle, the French historian Anka Muhlstein writes, stands indisputably among Europe's most accomplished explorers. In the 1670s and '80s he crossed over most of what is now French Canada and the middle United States and charted the length of the Mississippi River--almost always traveling on foot, almost always under dangerous circumstances. Thanks to his pioneering travels, in the next century ""America seemed destined to be French, until the Seven Years' War in Europe resulted in a reordering of the New World."" La Salle would not live to see this turnabout. Murder.

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  • "Seventeenth-century North America was a dangerous, untamed land, a vast wilderness where settlers, fur traders, and missionaries all struggled to eke out an existence. But the New World was also a place that attracted a special breed - men with a thirst for adventure and discovery. Robert Cavelier de La Salle, whose energy and single-minded ambition made him one of the greatest explorers of the time, was such a man."
  • "Seventeenth-century North America was a dangerous, untamed land, a vast wilderness where settlers, fur traders, and missionaries all struggled to eke out an existence. But the New World was also a place that attracted a special breed - men with a thirst for adventure and discovery. Robert Cavelier de La Salle, whose energy and single-minded ambition made him one of the greatest explorers of the time, was such a man. La Salle spent twenty years in North America, returning three times to France to enlist support for his further explorations and to gather funds to pursue them. Throughout those years he never lost sight of his grand strategic goal, which was to link the Great Lakes to warm water ports on the Gulf of Mexico. Nor did he waver in his integrity and determination to succeed, or lose his exceptional physical endurance. The author combines impeccable scholarship with a novelist's narrative power and eye for stunning detail. She brings to life not only La Salle but the period and place: the vast cold of the north; the seething, insect-infested heat of the south; endlessly warring Indian tribes; intrigues on both sides of the Atlantic; and the constant, daily battles with nature itself."
  • "Robert Chevalier de la Salle, the French historian Anka Muhlstein writes, stands indisputably among Europe's most accomplished explorers. In the 1670s and '80s he crossed over most of what is now French Canada and the middle United States and charted the length of the Mississippi River--almost always traveling on foot, almost always under dangerous circumstances. Thanks to his pioneering travels, in the next century ""America seemed destined to be French, until the Seven Years' War in Europe resulted in a reordering of the New World."" La Salle would not live to see this turnabout. Murder."@en

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  • "History"
  • "Biography"
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  • "Electronic books"
  • "LaSalle, Robert Cavelier de"
  • "LaSalle, Robert Cavelier ((de))"

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  • "Cavelier de La Salle, ou, L'homme qui offrit l'Amérique à Louis XIV"
  • "La Salle: Explorer of the North American Frontier"@en
  • "La Salle : explorer of the North American frontier"
  • "Cavelier de La Salle ou L'homme qui offrit l'Amérique à Louis XIV"
  • "Cavelier de La Salle : ou L'homme qui offrit l'Amérique à Louis XIV"
  • "La Salle explorer of the North American frontier"
  • "La Salle Explorer of the North American Frontier"@en
  • "Cavalier de La Salle : ou l'homme qui offrit l'Amérique à Louis XIV"@it

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