Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North America
Subtitle: for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the Great lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers...of the north west regions of that vast continent... Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi: and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements.
Contributors: Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Edition: 4th American, from the last London ed. by Capt. Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Publisher: Hachette, 1883.
Published: 1802
Place of publication: Charlestown [i.e. Charleston, S.C.]: Printed by Samuel Etheridge for West anf Greenleaf, no. 56, Cornhill, Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Northwestern States.; Ojibwa language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Dakota language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Northwestern States -- Description and travel.; Mississippi River -- Description and travel.; Minnesota -- Description and travel.
Genres: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Notes: First edition, London, 1778, published under title : Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. Third edition, London, 1781, edited by J.C. Lettsom.
For discussion as to authorship, etc., of "The travels of Jonathan Carver " by E.G. Bourne (American historical review, Jan. 1906) also "A bibliography of Carver's Travels" and "Captain Jonathan Carver : additional data" by J.T. Lee.
"A short vocabulary of the Chipeway language" : p. 241-249.
"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie language" : p. 249-253.