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The Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoixâs (1682â1761) Journal of a Voyage in North America
An Annotated Translation
Series: - Jesuit Studies, Volume: 24
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The French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoixâs 1744 journal of his voyage through French North AmericaâNew France, Louisiana, and the Caribbeanâis among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continentâs colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah Trueâs new translation of this influential text is the first to appear since 1763. It provides the first complete and reliable English version of Charlevoixâs 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.
Micah True, PhD (Duke University, 2009) is associate professor of French and folklore at the University of Alberta. His numerous publications on early French America most notably include Masters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France (McGill-Queenâs University Press, 2015).
âThis book will be a necessary purchase for academic libraries with holdings in Jesuit Studies, Atlantic world studies, early Canadiana, and North American history, including First Nations/Native American history.â - Lisa J. M. Poirier, DePaul University, Chicago, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 681-683
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âSummaries of the Contents of Charlevoixâs Letters
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âPreliminary Essay on the Origin of the Americans
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All interested in colonial French America (New France, Louisiana, the Caribbean), the history of Jesuit missions therein, and the flora, fauna, and indigenous inhabitants of eighteenth-century North America.