"JUVENILE NONFICTION History State & Local." . . "Explorers Canada Biography Juvenile literature." . . "Explorers." . . "Explorers North America Biography." . . . . "North America." . . "Mississippi River Valley" . . "Mississippi River Valley." . "Canada." . . . . . "Robert de La Salle" . . "Robert de La Salle"@en . . "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." . . . . . . . . "Biography" . "Biography"@en . . "Juvenile works" . "Juvenile works"@en . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . "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 . . . . . . . "JUVENILE NONFICTION Biography & Autobiography Science & Technology." . . "Explorers Canada Biography." . . "Discovery and exploration, French." . .