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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778820403321

Autore

Laudonnière René Goulaine de

Titolo

Three voyages [[electronic resource] /] / René Laudonnière ; translated with an introduction and notes by Charles E. Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8173-8347-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BennettCharles E. <1910-2003.>

Disciplina

917.59/1

917.591

Soggetti

French - Florida

Colonists - Florida

French - Florida - History - 16th century

Spaniards - Florida - History - 16th century

Florida History Huguenot colony, 1562-1565

Florida Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Gainesville : University Presses of Florida, [1975].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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