Let your students' imaginations soar as they travel around the world with these legendary explorers. Exploring during the Age of Exploration was fraught with violence and danger as well as thrilling discoveries and beautiful lands. Kids will be introduced to the complex issues of land ownership and political intrigue, as well as the interconnections between the history of a people and the history of the land that they called their own.While many European explorers headed south in search of gold and spices, Samuel de Champlain spent his life in North America, founding the first French colony at Quebec, trading with and fighting with and against the local Native American tribes, and mapping unknown territories such as Lake Huron and the lake in Vermont that bears his name, Lake Champlain.