Nova Francia
Subtitle: a description of Acadia, 1606
By: Marc Lescarot, tr. by P. Erondelle, 1609. With an introduction by H. P. Biggar.
Contributors: Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609.; Biggar, Henry Percival, 1872-1938.
Series: The Broadway travellers / edited by E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power; Library of American civilization -- LAC 13672.; Broadway travellers
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1928
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America -- Nova Scotia; New France -- Discovery and exploration; Acadia
Notes: Includes reproduction of original t.-p. of the translation: Nova Francia; or The description of that part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia. Described in the three late voyages and plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graue, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into the countries called by the French men La Cadie lying to the souhwest of Cape Breton. Together with an excellent seurerall treatie of all the commodities of the said countries and maners of the naturall inhabitants of the same. Translated out of French into English by P. Erondelle, Londini, Impensis Georgii Bishop. 1609.

The translation was made, at the request of Richard Hakluyt, from Marc Lescarbot's Histoire de la Nouvelle France (1st edition, 1609) It covers only the part relating to the voyages and settlements of de Monts, Pontgrave and Poutrincourt, with the book on the Indians.

"First published in this series in 1928."

Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 13672)

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