The Voyages of Giovanni Da Verrazzano, 1524-1528
Author : Lawrence Counselman Wroth
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 1970
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Lawrence Counselman Wroth
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 1970
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Lawrence C. Wroth
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Giovanni Da Verrazzano
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1616403810
The Voyage of John De Verazzano, written 1524, was a letter to King Francis the I of France by Giovanni (or John) da Verrazzano upon his exploration of North Carolina and the Pamlico Sound, which he thought was the entrance to the Pacific Ocean. His analysis resulted in one of many errors in the way North America was represented on a map; it was not fully and correctly mapped until the late 1800s. The letter, translated from its original Italian, provides an interesting insight into how the newly-discovered continent was viewed by explorers and other countries. Also included is an account, in Italian, of Verazzano's discovery of New York Harbor.GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO (1485-1528) was an Italian explorer of North America, the first European since the colonization of the Americas by the Norse colonies to explore the Atlantic coast. Born near Florence, he soon moved to France and started a career as a navigator, after which he was invited to explore North America by the French King Francis I. Throughout his years, he explored New York Harbor, Narragansett Bay, the coast of Maine, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Florida, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Antilles. Verrazzano made a total of three trips, dying in 1528 after embarking on an island and being killed and eaten by the local Carib cannibals.
Author : Lawrence Counselman Wroth
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Micah True
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9004408649
In this new, annotated translation of one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America, Micah True offers the first complete and reliable English edition of Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s richly detailed account of his voyage through colonial French America.
Author : Alan Gordon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774859202
Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and national identity. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero � Jacques Cartier � to explore how notions about the past have been passed from generation to generation in English- and French-speaking Canada and used to present particular ideas about the world. Nineteenth-century celebrations of Cartier reflected a new understanding of history that accompanied the arrival of modernity in North America. This sensibility, in turn, influenced the political and cultural currents of nation building in Canada. Cartier may have been a point of contact between English and French Canada, but the nature of that contact, as Gordon shows, had profound limitations.
Author : James Carson Brevoort
Publisher : New York : [s.n.]
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 1874
Category : America
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Author : James Carson Brevoort
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1874
Category : America
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Author : Ramsay Cook
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1487516797
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.
Author : James Carson Brevoort
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
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ISBN : 9781498185707
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1874 Edition.