A company man
Subtitle: the remarkable French-Atlantic voyage of a clerk for the Company of the Indies : a memoir
By: by Marc-Antoine Caillot ; edited and with an introduction by Erin M. Greenwald ; translated by Teri F. Chalmers
Contributors: Greenwald, Erin; Historic New Orleans Collection
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Historic New Orleans Collections; Historic New Orleans Collection
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780917860614
Subjects: Compagnie des Indes; Description and travel; Ocean travel; Officials and employees; Travel; French; Indians of North America; Clerks; Biography; History
Work titles: Relation du voyage de la Louisianne ou Nouvelle France fait par le Sr. Caillot en l'annee 1730
Description: "Caillot's 1730 memoir recounts a young man's voyage from Paris to New Orleans, where he served the Company of the Indies. An introduction and annotations provide historical context to this intimate examination of life in the French-Atlantic world"--Provided by publisher.

Contains primary source documents.
Notes: Translation of an unpublished eighteenth-century manuscript acquired by The Historic New Orleans Collection in 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: An American Journey; title: An Account of the Mississippi Country and the Indians Who Inhabit This Land.