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Author
Language
English
Description
An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
IG 1130L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the footsteps of Samuel de Champlain in his mission to colonize what would later become Quebec. Illustrations and maps follow his trek from Cape Breton to Cape Cod and the lake that now bears his name.
3) Champlain
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
55 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 834 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.