André Thevet's North America
Subtitle: a sixteenth-century view
By: an edition-translation, with notes and introduction, by Roger Schlesinger and Arthur P. Stabler.
Contributors: Schlesinger, Roger, 1943-; Stabler, Arthur Phillips.; Thevet, André, 1502-1590.; Thevet, André, 1502-1590.; Thevet, André, 1502-1590.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Kingston [Ont.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Thevet, André, 1502-1590 -- Travel -- North America; America -- Discovery and exploration -- French; America -- Early accounts to 1600; North America -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early accounts to 1600.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [271]-280.
Collection of selections from Thevet's Les singularitez de la France antarctique and La cosmographie universelle (originally published in French), and a copy of his Grand insulaire (never before published) presented in English and French.
Includes index.