New Voyages to North-America, Volume I

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ISBN: 9781333685812
作者: Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce
格式: 平装
其它标题: New Voyages to North-America, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing an Account of the Several Nations of That Vast Continent; Their Customs, Commerce, and Way of ... the English and French to Dispossess One Anot
出版社: Forgotten Books
发行时间: 2018 -8
语言: 英语
装订: Paperback
页数: 327

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Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce   

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New Voyages to North America is a book by Louis Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron de Lahontan that chronicles his nine years exploring New France as an officer in the French Army. Published in two volumes in 1703 as Nouveaux Voyages de M. le Baron de Lahontan dans l’Amérique Septentrionale, it was translated into English the same year.

Considered the best work on 17th century New France for its detailed descriptions of the environment and North American native society, the book includes accounts of the two winters Lahontan spent hunting with a group of the Algonquin people. Lahontan expresses his opinions of New France and the natives, as well as of European society, through dialogue between himself and "Adario", a fictional native based on the Huron chief Kondiaronk.

Volume I has two sections: Lahontan's letters to a friend and his memoirs. Both provide descriptions of his journeys. The letters document his interactions with natives as well as superior French figures in Quebec, Montreal, and Sault Ste. Marie while the memoirs provide more in depth descriptions of geographical locations, detailed descriptions of the wildlife and lists of native vocabulary.

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