Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the northwest regions of that vast continent ; with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes ... Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi ... / By Captain Jonathan Carver ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.

Contributor:

Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.

Standardized Title:

Travels through the interior parts of North-America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Northwestern States.

Indians of North America.

Northwestern States--Description and travel.

Northwestern States.

Mississippi River--Description and travel.

Mississippi River.

Minnesota--Description and travel.

Minnesota.

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Great Britain -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

xx, ix pages, 10 unnumbered pages - 360, 20, 8 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Published by Key & Simpson, 1796.

Notes:

First edition issued in London, 1778, under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America.

Carver's Travels as printed was probably the work of Dr. John Coakley Lettsom. An article on Carver and his book and its probable authorship may be found in American historical review, Jan. 1906, v. 11, p. 287.

"List of subscribers": 20, 8 p. at end.

Local Notes:

Copies 2-3: 2nd subscriber's list, 8 p. at the end wanting.

Cited in:

Evans 30169.

Sabin 11185.

Lee, J.T. A bibliography of Carver's Travels, p. 169-170 (In Wisconsin. State Historical Society. Proceedings ... 1909)

OCLC:

66281155