Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles
Subtitle: containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the northwest regions of that vast continent, with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country : together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi ...
By: by Captain Jonathan Carver ...
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress); Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Key & Simpson
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Northwestern States -- Early works to 1800.; Northwestern States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Mississippi River -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Minnesota -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Evans 30169
First published in 1778 under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.  An article on Carver and his book and its probable authorship may be found in American Historical Review for January 1906, v. 11, p. 287.
Signatures: [a]⁴ b⁴ c² A-2Y⁴ A-B⁴ C².