Despite All Obstacles: LA Salle and the Conquest of the Mississippi (Great Explorers) - Hardcover

An outstanding resource book for homes, classrooms, and libraries.--Linda Sailsbury"ForeWord" (02/01/2002)

Nonfiction Honor Book, 2001--VOYA (01/01/2001)

A memorable portrait of this incurable hustler ... This lively biography sits a good cut above standard school assignment fare.-- (11/01/2001)

Well-designed book ... smoothly written text ... Full-page or double-page paintings, often handsome and dramatic, brighten most spreads in this fully illustrated book.-- (01/01/2002)

An addition to the Great Explorers series offers the biography of the man who explored the St. Lawrence, Ohio, Illinois, and Mississippi Rivers, and who claimed America's heartland for King Louis XIV and France.