Algonquians, Hurons and Iroquois
Champlain Explores America 1603-1616
Samuel de Champlain
Annue Nettleton Bourne
Edward Bourne
9781551099576
238 pages
Nimbus Publishing
Overview
“If we compare him with the other explorers and founders of that age he stands above them all in the range of achievement” –Edward Gaylord Bourne, Introduction As the first explorer to provide an accurate and detailed account of Nova Scotia and New England, Samuel de Chaplain is synonymous with early observations of North American Aboriginal peoples, interactions between New World inhabitants and European colonial powers, and the founding of New France. Chaplain’s meticulous and fascinating historical records of his seventeenth-century explorations continue to illuminate early life in North America, hundreds of years later.
Author Bio
Featuring Champlain’s original sketches, concise editorial notes, and an informative introduction by editor Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906), Algonquians, Hurons and Iroquois: Champlain Explores America 1603-1616 provides an accurate and readable translation of chaplain’s indispensible text, The Voyages and Discoveries 1604-1616.
