The Voyages of Jacques Cartier / with an introduction by Ramsay Cook.
TITLE:
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier / with an introduction by Ramsay Cook.
Publication Date:
1993
Publication Information:
Toronto : University of Toronto Press,
Physical Description:
177 p. : ill.
Additional Contributors:
Summary:
Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541 constitute the first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of northeastern North American and its peoples. The Voyages are rich in details about almost every aspect of the region's environment and the people who inhabited it. As Ramsay Cook points out in his introduction, Cartier was more than an explorer; he was also Canada's first ethnographer. His accounts provide a wealth of information about the native people of the region and their relations with each other. Indirectly, he also reveals much about himself and about sixteenth-century European attitudes and beliefs. These memoirs recount not only the French experience with the Iroquois, but alo the Iroquois' discovery of the French.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780802060006
General Note:
Introduction by Ramsay Cook, Canadian author.
