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Description:A reprint in one volume, with an added Introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites, of the facsimile two-volume edition of A.C. McClung and Company, Chicago, 1903, itself being a reprint of the 1698 printing (London), the first English translation.Despite later problems with the church and well-founded allegations of Hennepin having claimed 'La Salle's achievements as his own', the text remains one of the earliest sources of a description of the lands, fauna, and First Nations people in North America. His is the first known description of Niagara Falls, and his travels down the Mississippi with La Salle provided an 'unparalleled source of information on the native peoples and natural history of the territory stretching from French Canada to the Gulf of Mexico'.Reproduced are the title pages from both volumes of the 1698 edition, the engravings of his view of Niagara Falls, of a Buffalo, 'The cruelty of the Savage Iroquois', amongst others; and two fold-out maps: 'A Map of a Large Country Newly Discovered in the Northern America' from Volume I, and 'A Map of the New World between New Mexico and the Frozen Sea...' from Volume II. Thwaites' well-respected annotations are of great value.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. To get started finding A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1974

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Description: A reprint in one volume, with an added Introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites, of the facsimile two-volume edition of A.C. McClung and Company, Chicago, 1903, itself being a reprint of the 1698 printing (London), the first English translation.Despite later problems with the church and well-founded allegations of Hennepin having claimed 'La Salle's achievements as his own', the text remains one of the earliest sources of a description of the lands, fauna, and First Nations people in North America. His is the first known description of Niagara Falls, and his travels down the Mississippi with La Salle provided an 'unparalleled source of information on the native peoples and natural history of the territory stretching from French Canada to the Gulf of Mexico'.Reproduced are the title pages from both volumes of the 1698 edition, the engravings of his view of Niagara Falls, of a Buffalo, 'The cruelty of the Savage Iroquois', amongst others; and two fold-out maps: 'A Map of a Large Country Newly Discovered in the Northern America' from Volume I, and 'A Map of the New World between New Mexico and the Frozen Sea...' from Volume II. Thwaites' well-respected annotations are of great value.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. To get started finding A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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