PBS Specials

Dead Reckoning: Champlain in America (2009x8)

Air date: Nov 17, 2009

Dead Reckoning ~ Champlain in America focuses on Champlain’s years of exploration in North America, and his successful adaptation to the ways of the Amerindian people, who taught him how to explore and survive in the wilds of North America. Champlain began his voyages as a cartographer in the service of the king of France. By the end of his life, he was responsible for the future of New France in North America.