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 north-west regions of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country : 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 : and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements / by Captain Jonathan Carver ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Northwestern States.

Indians of North America.

Northwestern States--Description and travel.

Northwestern States.

Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel.

Mississippi River Valley.

Minnesota--Description and travel.

Minnesota.

Penn Provenance:

Keim, George de Benneville (Autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 9 unnumbered pages-282 pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1792.

Notes:

First edition, London 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.

For a discussion of authorship see "The travels of Jonathan Carver," by E.G. Bourne, American Historical Review 11(January 1906): 287.

Cited in:

Evans, 24181

OCLC:

186483806