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Three voyages / René Laudonnière ; translated with an introduction and notes by Charles E. Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laudonnière, René Goulaine de.
- Standardized Title:
- Histoire notable de la Floride. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French--Florida--Biography.
- French.
- Colonists--Florida--Biography.
- Colonists.
- French--Florida--History--16th century.
- Spaniards--Florida--History--16th century.
- Spaniards.
- Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565.
- Florida.
- Florida--Description and travel.
- Laudonnière, René Goulaine de.
- Laudonnière, René Goulaine de--Travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America. Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States is uniquely valuable becausehe played a major role in each of the ventures-first, in 1562, as second in command during the founding of the ill-fated Charlesport, then as commander for the establishment of Fort Caroline on Florida's St. Johns River in 1564, and finally
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword to Paperback Edition; Introduction; Three Voyages; Preface; The First Voyage; The Second Voyage; The Third Voyage; Appendices; A-Newly Discovered Portrait of Dominique de Gourgues; B-""Laudonnière's Shipping Contract of 1572""; C-Mutual Gift Agreement between René Laudonnière and His Wife; D-""Plant life in Sixteenth-Century Florida""; Notes; Notes to Introduction; Notes to Three Voyages; Notes to Appendix B; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: Gainesville : University Presses of Florida, [1975].
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8347-6
- OCLC:
- 818115706
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