Knudsen, Anders

Describes the life of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French adventurer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac, discussing his founding of Detroit, his governance of Louisiana, interactions between Europeans and Native Americans at this time, and conflicts between the French and British in America.

A biography of Sir John Franklin who went on three expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage and disappeared on the third. Describes his role in mapping and exploring the Arctic.