Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet
In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper – reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers'' epic journey through the center of the American continent, Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived f...
In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper – reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers'' epic journey through the center of the American continent, Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived f...
