In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joll

An account of the expedition led by two Frenchmen, a soldier and a priest, to explore the Mississippi River in the late seventeenth century.

A biography of the French explorers whose primary goal was to find the Northwest Passage, but who made their mark on history by exploring and charting the Missi

A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first Europeans to locate and chart the Mississippi River.

In 1673, an unlikely pair set off to see whether the Mississippi River flowed into the Pacific Ocean.