Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix's  Journal of a Voyage in North America
Subtitle: An Annotated Translation
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9789004408630
Subjects: Indians of north america, canada; Canada, history, to 1763 (new france); Canada, description and travel
Description: "The French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix's 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America-New France, Louisiana, and the Caribbean-is among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continent's colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah True's new translation of this influential text is the first to appear since 1763. It provides the first complete and reliable English version of Charlevoix's journal and reveals the famous Jesuit to have been a better literary stylist than has often been assumed on the basis of earlier translations. Complemented by a detailed introduction and richly annotated, this volume finally makes accessible to an Anglophone audience one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America"--