Highlights the life and accomplishments of the eighteenth-century British navigator and explorer whose three famous voyages resulted in the accurate mapping of much of the South Pacific.
The story of an ambitious man who was heralded as a heroic conqueror, a ruthless explorer who presented his king with a territory nine times larger than Spain itself, and a skilled military commander whose actions forever altered the land that we know today as Mexico.
A biography of explorer Jacques Cartier who discovered the St. Lawrence River leading the way for further European exploration of North America. Describes how Cartier helped establish a trade network between the French and North American Indians in villages that became Montreal and Quebec City.
