Algonquians, Hurons and Iroquois: Champlain Explores America, 1603-1616

by Samuel de Champlain

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"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 show more historical records of his seventeenth-century explorations continue to illuminate early life in North America, hundreds of years later. show less

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This book has now been overshadowed completely by David Hackett Fischer's "Champlain's Dream".

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History, Nonfiction, Travel
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971.01History & geographyHistory of North AmericaCanadaCanadaFrench regime 1497-1763
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F1030.1 .C4313Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaCanadaGeneral
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