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



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Autore: Laudonnière René Goulaine de Visualizza persona
Titolo: Three voyages [[electronic resource] /] / René Laudonnière ; translated with an introduction and notes by Charles E. Bennett Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina: 917.59/1
917.591
Soggetto topico: French - Florida
Colonists - Florida
French - Florida - History - 16th century
Spaniards - Florida - History - 16th century
Soggetto geografico: Florida History Huguenot colony, 1562-1565
Florida Description and travel
Altri autori: BennettCharles E. <1910-2003.>  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Three voyages  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8347-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778820403321
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