Extractions: Put exact phrases in quotes Search within Results by media type: We searched for: we found: results by media type: journal articles: magazine articles: newspaper articles: encyclopedia articles: books on: narratives explorers - 3158 results More book Results: Great Adventures and Explorations from the Earliest Times to the Present, as Told by the Explorers Themselves Book by Vilhjalmur Stefansson Olive Rathbun Wilcox ; Dial Press, 1952 Subjects: Discoveries In Geography Explorers ...wording and style of those narratives which were published by the...figure among the historical explorers , the philosopher Pytheas...impressive figure among Latin explorers , Prince Henry the Navigator...appear through the firsthand narratives of our book, show themselves... The Explorers: Great Adventurers Tell Their Own Stories of Discovery Book by G. R. Crone
Virtual Jamestown--Timeline 1502 Columbus sails on his fourth and last voyage to the new world robert (King)Carter born. 1664 British annex new Netherlands and rename new http://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html
Extractions: EXPANDING NEW FRANCE: The Lavergnes Move South to New Orleans and West to Opelousas From Lives of Quiet Desperation by Gary M. Lavergne Shortly after the French founded Quebec in 1608, their explorers and fur traders pushed westward along the Great Lakes area. The chief activity of the French was the fur trade conducted by the coureurs de bois or the "runners of the woods." The Governor of New France, Louis de Buade Frontenac (1620-1698), showed a preference for fur trading activities over the establishment of farming communities. The expansion of New France was thus merely an attempt to expand the scope of the lucrative fur trade and to extend French dominance in the New World. It was Pierre Esprit Radisson who first heard of a great river which ran southward toward the Gulf of Mexico; within the next few years the French had explored the upper portions of that "great river." As a resident of Quebec City, Louis Lavergne would most likely have been familiar with a fellow resident named Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. La Salle arrived in New France in 1667, right about the same time as Louis Lavergne. In 1673 Governor Frontenac sent La Salle to France to report to French Finance Minister Colbert on the status of New France. (See "Quebec City: The Emergence of Louis Lavergne"). He returned to Canada two years later (1675) with a grant of nobility only to return to France (1677) with a request of the King for ships and settlers for the lower Mississippi River Valley. In order to make his case before the King, La Salle told of rich mines and the prospect of mass conversions of Indians to Christianityboth shear fabrications. By 14 July 1678, La Salle left France and reached Quebec two months later.
Extractions: Web posted at: 11:25 p.m. EST CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CNN) More than 300 years ago, a ship belonging to the French explorer La Salle sank during a violent storm off what is now the coast of Texas. This fall, on land, researchers were introduced to a nearly intact skeleton who may have been a member of the crew. (1.1MB/28 sec. QuickTime movie of the dig The wreck of the La Belle was found a year ago by a research team in 14 feet (4 meters) of water near the small town of Palacios. In a rare archeological drama, they began excavating the site in September after a dam was built around the wreck and the Matagorda Bay waters were pumped out. Among their dry-land discoveries was the skeleton, who may have been someone who died of thirst during the voyage. (306K/28 sec. AIFF or WAV sound) Barto Arnold, project director The skeleton is not believed to be that of La Salle, also known as Rene-Robert Cavelier. He was murdered by mutinous members of his expedition in 1687, a year after the Belle sank while it was anchored in the bay. La Salle had led an expedition there, thinking it was the mouth of the Mississippi River. He was away on land exploring when the ship went down. The ship and its contents are well preserved because they sank quickly into the seabed, where the sand and mud kept out the corrosive effects of oxygen. The La Belle is believed to have been one of the first ships to visit that coast.
