Article: La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.(Book Review)

La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. By Donald S. Johnson. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 262. $26.95.)

The last several years have seen the publication of a number of new biographies of classic figures from the age of exploration: Prince Henry the Navigator, John Cabot, Vasco da Gama, and Sir Francis Drake. Now Donald S. Johnson, the author of several books about the history of exploration, has written a new brief biography of Robert Cavelier sieur de La Salle (1643-1687). Such a biography is needed. La Salle's career provided the focus for an entire volume, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869), in ...

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