History And General Description Of New France (Volume Ii)

By P F X de Charlevoix and Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix

Book Overview

Step into the river corridors, fort towns, and winter roads of New France as seen by P. F. X. de Charlevoix, a Jesuit observer with a historian's discipline. Maps fade; stories hold fast. Volume II continues this colonial history classic as both historical travel narrative and documentary record, tracing the making of colonial Louisiana and Canada through official reports, on-the-ground description, and careful judgement. Charlevoix writes at the meeting point of politics, faith, and survival: french colonization canada set against rival empires, jesuit missions new france moving along waterways and portages, and Indigenous peoples accounts recorded with the attention of an eyewitness. For readers of new france 17th century and early 18th-century North America, it serves as a dependable canadian history reference and an academic research source, linking exploration and settlement to the longer samuel de champlain history and the wider jesuit relations collection. Read for narrative drive, return for detail: geography, trade, alliances, and the practical realities that shaped a continent. Its prose balances narrative with encyclopaedic scope, making it perfect for armchair travellers, students, and anyone comparing French and Indigenous perspectives across the early colonial record, side by side today. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. This unabridged colonial history belongs on the shelf of classic-literature collectors, while remaining vivid and approachable for anyone curious about the foundations of Canada and the French Atlantic world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354503586
• ISBN13: 9789354503580
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"