04129nam 2200697Ia 450 991082767780332120200520144314.00-7735-4082-21-283-62088-X97866139333310-7735-8761-610.1515/9780773587618(CKB)3360000000435496(EBL)3332496(SSID)ssj0000823906(PQKBManifestationID)11482326(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000823906(PQKBWorkID)10772150(PQKB)10633904(CEL)443447(OCoLC)818016124(CaBNVSL)slc00230927(Au-PeEL)EBL3332496(CaPaEBR)ebr10605518(CaONFJC)MIL393333(OCoLC)923238086(DE-B1597)655057(DE-B1597)9780773587618(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/rrstd1(MiAaPQ)EBC3332496(EXLCZ)99336000000043549620111104d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe collected writingdVolume IThe voyages /Pierre-Esprit Radisson, edited by Germaine WarkentinMotreal McGill-Queen's University Press20121 online resource (377 p.)0-7735-3975-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Voyages (1668) -- I To the Mohawk, 1652-53 -- II To the Onondaga, 1657-58 165 -- III To Lake Michigan, 1654-56 -- IV To Lake Superior and James Bay, 1659-60 -- Appendix: Radisson in an Aboriginal World / Heidi Bohaker -- Glossary -- Textual Emendations.Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured, tortured, and adopted by the Mohawk, and a youth relishing the freedom of the wilderness. He was the French-born servant of an ambitious English trading company and a hapless petitioner at the court of Louis XIV. He was a central figure in the tug-of-war between France and England over Hudson Bay and a pretender to aristocratic status who had to defend his actions before James II. Finally, he was a retired "sea captain" trying to provide for his children, and despite the pension he had fought for, the "decay'd Gentleman" described in his burial record. Radisson's writings, characterized by hubris and contradiction, provoke many questions. Was he a semi-literate woodsman? Are his accounts of Native life ethnographically reliable? Can he be trusted to tell the truth about himself? How important were his explorations? In this first volume of Radisson's complete writings, Germaine Warkentin introduces the life, travels, motivations, and work of this compelling and complicated figure while providing a comprehensive and authoritative edition of his masterpiece - The Voyages. In the four accounts of his travels to the far interior of the Great Lakes and James Bay, Radisson vibrantly depicts his life among the Mohawk, his encounters and relationships with Native peoples, Jesuits, English, French, and Dutch colonists and traders, as well as the hazards of the capricious politics of the New World and the thrilling surprise of discoveries. Striking a superb balance between accessible writing and comprehensive scholarship, this new edition of Radisson's Voyages is indispensable, definitive, and reasserts the important roles that Radisson played in seventeenth-century North American rivalries.Iroquois IndiansIndians of North AmericaCanadaNorthwest, CanadianHistoryNew FranceDiscovery and explorationIroquois Indians.Indians of North America971.01Radisson Pierre Espritca. 1636-1710.1683261Scull G. D(Gideon Delaplaine),1824-1889.1683262Champlain Society.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827677803321The collected writingd4188641UNINA