Books like Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence. by Esther Holden Averill

A solitary Chumash girl is left on San Nicolas Island and must learn to survive alone, mastering skills traditionally reserved for men while facing danger, hunger and loneliness.

Laura and her family settle in Minnesota, living first in a dugout before a new house is built, while enduring floods, blizzards, and grasshopper infestations.

Twelve‑year‑old Abilene Tucker travels to Manifest, Kansas, in the summer of 1936 to learn about her estranged father and discovers a network of friends and secrets that bind the town and her family together.

A young Indian boy carves a canoe named Paddle-to-the-Sea, whose voyage across the Great Lakes to the Atlantic is narrated in text and illustrations, offering a vivid geographic and historical tour of the region.

When Jack, apprenticed to a Druid bard, and his sister Lucy are seized by Viking Berserkers, they are taken to King Ivar the Boneless and his half‑troll queen. Jack must journey to Jotunheim to rescue his sister.

The life of the sixteenth-century French navigator and explorer whose discovery of the St. Lawrence River and the fertile land beyond led to the establishment of a French colony in the Americas.

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) was a French explorer in the Great Lakes region who traveled the Mississippi River, claiming the territory for France. Born and raised in France and educated in the Jesuit religious order, he went to Montreal in New France in 1666. On one of his expeditions in the subsequent years he built the first sailing ship on the Great Lakes, Le Griffon. Part of his legacy was a chain of forts from Ontario into present-day Ohio and Illinois that extended French control and the French fur trade into the region of the present Great Lakes states. Author Francis Parkman was one of America’s best-known and most respected historians in the late nineteenth century. He drew on a great depth of expertise about the history of the French in North America for this book, which was long considered a standard history on the topic.

A quiet summer canoe trip on a northern lake invites readers to witness the subtle wonders of nature.

Swedish explorer Andree's expedition to the Arctic failed when their hydrogen balloon ascended prematurely, causing the fatal deaths of the three crew members.