Champlain by Christopher Moore
One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure. So begins Christopher Moore's riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, daring father of New France. Samuel de Champlain helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World; he established the village that eventually became the great city of Quebec; he was a skilled cartographer who gave us many of our first accurate maps of North America; he forged alliances with Native nations that laid the foundations for vast trading networks; and as governor, he set New France on the road to becoming a productive, self-sufficient, thriving colony. But Champlain was also a man who suffered his share of defeats and disappointments. That first permanent settlement was abandoned after a disastrous winter claimed the lives of half the colonists. His marriage to a child bride was unhappy and marked by long separations. Eventually Quebec had to be surrendered temporarily to the English in 1629. In this remarkable book, illustrated entirely with paintings, archival maps, and original artifacts, Christopher Moore brings to life this complex man and, through him, creates a portrait of Canada in its earliest days. Champlain is illustrated with archival maps and paintings. Additional artwork has been provided by Francis Back.CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERLIN MOORE has served in the Episcopal Church for more than forty years. He is the author of What I REALLY Want to Do, Opening the Clergy Parachute, and Solitude: A Neglected Road to God, and a nationally recognized conference speaker. He's written for a variety of denominational, Christian, and secular periodicals, and he's won an Emmy Award for Religious Broadcasting Achievement.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780887766572 |
| ISBN 10 | 0887766579 |
| Title | Champlain |
| Author | Christopher Moore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Tundra Books |
| Year published | 2004-08-24 |
| Number of pages | 56 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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