Champlain, Samuel de, 1574-1635

Samuel de Champlain of Brouage, cartographer, explorer, and founder of Canada. Champlain discovered Mount Desert Island in 1604. He also laid the foundation of what became the first permenent French colony in America at Quebec. "Des Sauvages" was his first book descriptive both of his voyage and of the inhabitants of the St. Lawrence Valley in 1603.

From the description of Des sauvages. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213496584