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France and England in North America, Vol. I: - 1) Pioneers of France in the New World 2) The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century 3) La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West 4) The Old Regime in Canada (1885)

Name: France and England in North America, Vol. I: - 1) Pioneers of France in the New World 2) The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century 3) La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West 4) The Old Regime in Canada (1885)
ISBN: 9780940450103

Francis Parkman

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This is the first of two volumes presenting all seven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman's "history of the American forest" is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the adventures he describes.

This volume begins with the tragic settlement of French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts north as explorers like Samuel de Champlain map the wilderness and wage savage forest warfare against the Iroquois; resolute Jesuits attempt to convert the Indians and suffer captivity, torture, and martyrdom in the wilderness; conflict rages in French Canada between religious extremists and fur traders. Dominating all is the fiercely indomitable La Salle, whose obsession with colonizing the Mississippi Valley leads to vast treks across the western prairie and assassination in a lonely Texas swamp.

Kategorien:

History - American Studies

Band:

vol. 1 (of 2)

Jahr:

1885

Auflage:

1983

Verlag:

Library of America

Sprache:

english