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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 Jonathan Carver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Standardized Title:
- Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Northwestern States--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of North America.
- Northwestern States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Northwestern States.
- Mississippi River--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Mississippi River.
- Minnesota--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Minnesota.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p. )
- Other Title:
- Three years travels through the interior parts of North America
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : J. Key, 1798.
- Notes:
- First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. The third edition, London, 1781, was edited by John Coakley Lettsonm, who may himself have composed the book from Carver's personal narrative and from earlier writers. Cf. E.G. Bourne's article on "The travels of Jonathan Carver" in American historical review, Jan. 1906. v. 11, p. 287-302. Also published in 1838 under title: Travels in Wisconsin.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 11185.
- OCLC:
- 12
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