La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.(Book Review) The Historian | September 22, 2004| | COPYRIGHT 2004 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. By Donald S. Johnson. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 262. $26.95.)

The last several years have seen the publication of a number of new biographies of classic figures from the age of exploration: Prince Henry the Navigator, John Cabot, Vasco da Gama, and Sir Francis Drake. Now Donald S. Johnson, the author of several books about the history of exploration, has written a new brief biography of Robert Cavelier sieur de La Salle (1643-1687). Such a biography is needed. La Salle's career ...

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