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Francis Parkman - автор 11 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, Francis Parkman: France and England in North America Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits in North America. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West. The Old Regime in Canada, Francis Parkman: France and England in North America Vol. 2: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A Half-Century of Conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World, is best known for claiming the entire Louisiana Territory for France in 1682. Two years later, he was given the order to colonize and govern the great expanse of territory between Lake Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. He set out from France with four ships but never reached his destination. Landing ...
This Library of America volume, along with its companion, incorporates, for the first time in compact form, all seven titles of Francis Parkman’s monumental account of France and England’s imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Parkman conceived the project in 1841, when he was a Harvard sophomore, and persisted in it despite chronic disorders that affected his eyes. The ...
This is the second of two Library of America volumes (the companion volume here) presenting, in compact form, all seven parts of Francis Parkman’s monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman’s “history of the American forest” is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly descr...
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western wildlife; and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture. A classic of American frontier literature.
