The Voyages of Jacques Cartier / Ramsay Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.

Contributor:

Cook, Ramsay, Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Standardized Title:

Voyage de Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.

Indians of North America--Canada.

America--Discovery and exploration--French.

New France--Discovery and exploration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute 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.In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English.Ramsay Cook's introduction, 'Donnacona Discovers Europe,' rereads the documents in the light of recent scholarship as well as from contemporary perspectives in order to understand better the viewpoints of Cartier and the native people with whom he came into contact.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Donnacona Discovers Europe: Rereading Jacques Carrier's Voyages

Cartier;s First Voyage, 1534

Carder's Third Voyage, 1541

Roberval's Voyage, 1542-1543

Documents relating to Jacques Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

Translation of Cartier's records of his voyages to New France in 1534, 1535-1536, and 1541. Seeing marvels everywhere, Cartier glimpsed the St. Lawrence in the last days before its population and environment began to collapse.

ISBN:

1-4426-5804-5

1-4426-2732-8

OCLC:

903441070