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Robert de La Salle

La Salle is one of the best-known but least-understood explorers of human history. Celebrated for following the Mississippi to its mouth in Louisiana, he was berated for failing to relocate that same area when he came by sea. This title describes the man whose journeys encouraged explorers from other European nations to survey the southeastern US.

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  • "Highlights the life and accomplishments of the seventeenth-century French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence, Ohio, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers, and who claimed America's heartland for King Louis XIV and France."
  • "La Salle is one of the best-known but least-understood explorers of human history. Celebrated for following the Mississippi to its mouth in Louisiana, he was berated for failing to relocate that same area when he came by sea. This title describes the man whose journeys encouraged explorers from other European nations to survey the southeastern US."@en

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  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
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  • "Robert de La Salle"@en
  • "Robert de La Salle"