Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur De LA Salle: Explorer of the Mississippi River (World's Great Explorers) [Library Binding]

Jim Hargrove (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1991 | Series: World's Great Explorers

A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who, among other exploits, led the first European expedition to track the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 8 Up-- For a fellow in the exploration business only a couple of decades, La Salle had as much--or more--trouble than makes the six o'clock news. But his accomplishments were enormous. He set up forts, explored rivers, and was the first European to go all the way down the Mississippi; he added to the possessions of the King of France, Louis XIV, all the territory later to be added to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase. Hargrove's is an interesting expository account that certainly could be useful for reports as well as for general information, although the vocabulary and allusions will deter some readers, and many of the Native Americans are depicted as stereotypically treacherous. The book is heavily illustrated with old prints, maps, and full-color photographs. As with a few dated black-and-white films, some prints have been "colorized." Most pages are topped by a half-inch of smoggy, gray haze, a touch that is more annoying than artistic. --George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Library Binding: 128 pages
• Publisher: Childrens Pr (July 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 051603054X
• ISBN-13: 978-0516030548
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,317,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jim Hargrove worked as a writer and editor for most of his adult life. After serving as an editorial director for three small Chicago area publishers, he began a career as a freelance writer, writing several dozen books for children and young adults, many for Childrens Press of Chicago.

He has contributed works to more than twenty different publishers, including magazine, newspaper and encyclopedia articles. More recently he, he developed a number of websites, including one about Lee Harvey Oswald. After building a home in southeastern Wisconsin, he began a second career in real estate, hoping to never write anything else for the remainder of his life.