Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Abel Tasman, Evliya elebi, Robert Bylot, William Baffin, John Smith, Jacob Le Maire, Christopher Levett, Christopher Newport, Bento de G is, Ren -Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Pieter Nuyts, Robert Dudley, John Rolfe, Pedro Fernandes de Queir s, tienne Br l, Semyon Dezhnyov, Willem Janszoon, Bartholomew Gosnold, Jonas Poole, Joris Carolus, Nicholas Woodcock, Jens Munk, Adriaen Block, Robert Fotherby, Dirk Hartog, James Rosier, Jacques l'Hermite, Thomas Edge, Isaq Schrijver, Willem de Vlamingh, Pedro Teixeira, Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Reijnjer van Tzum, Thomas Marmaduke, Jean Nicolet, John Mildenhall, Willem Schouten, Hendrik Brouwer, Est v o Cacella, Fedot Alekseyev Popov, Ant nio de Andrade, Frederick de Houtman, Piers Griffith, Ant nio Raposo Tavares, Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout, Domingos Jorge Velho, Matthijs Quast, Jan Carstenszoon, Richard Whitbourne, Fran ois Thijssen, Martim Soares Moreno, Steven Bennet, John Cunningham, Lionel Wafer, Nicol?‘s de Cardona, Luke Foxe, Abraham Blauvelt, Martin d'Aguilar, Joris van Spilbergen, James Hall, Hendrick Christiaensen, David Melgueiro, Jo o Cabral, Baltazar Fernandes. Excerpt: Samuel de Champlain (French pronunciation: born Samuel Champlain; ca. 1567 - December 25, 1635), The Father of New France, was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608. Born into a family of master mariners, Champlain, while still a young man of 16, began exploring North America in 1603 under the guidance of Fran ois Grav Du Pont. From 1604-1607, Champlain participated in the exploration and settlement of the first permanent European settlement north of Florida, Port Royal, Acadia (1605). Then, in 1608, he established…