Nova Francia: A Description of Acadia, 1606

ISBN-13: 9781138878082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str.

Marc Lescarbot

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First published in 1928.
'Lescarbot was a man of lively wit, and a practical sagacity and breadth of view far in advance of his time.' Spectator
'This admirable edition reveals to be a lesser-known Montaigne, and Erondelle a second Florio' Daily News
'One must be singularly hard to entertain if Lescarbot fails' Birmingham Post
Nova Francia is an account of the foundation of the first French colony in Acadia in 1606. The author, Marc Lescarbot, had an inquisitive mind and an independent outlook, with a special faculty for clear thinking, and it is this authorial style which gives the work its unique value. To read Lescarbot is to enter again into the outlook of an intelligent Frenchman of the sixteenth century.

Spis treści

I: Wherein are described the three late Voyages, Navigations, and Plantation of New France (otherwise called La Cadia) by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-gravé, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt; I: Chapter I Patent to M. de Monts; II: The Voyage; III: Leaving Port du Mouton; IV: River St. John: Isle Ste. Croix; V: The Island of Sainte-Croix; VI: Building at Isle Ste. Croix; VII: Discovery of New Lands; VIII: The Transfer to Port Royal; IX: De Poutrincourt's Third Voyage; X: Delayed at La Rochelle; XI: Departure from La Rochelle; XII: The Great Bank of Morues; XIII: Meeting with Du Pont; XIV: Departure from Sainte-Croix; XV: Dangers, Accidents, Perils; XVI: Winter at Port Royal; XVII: Arrival of Chevalier; XVIII: Departure from Port Royal; II: The Second Book of The History of Nova Francia; I: Of The Nativity of Man; II: Of the Imposition of Names; III: Of the Feeding of their Children; IV: Of Their Love Towards Their Children; V: Of Their Religion; VI: Of the Soothsayers and Masters of the Ceremonies among the Indians; VII: Of Their Language; VIII: Of the Use of Letters; IX: Of Their Clothing and Wearing of Their Hairs; X: Of the Form, Colour, Stature, and Activity of the Savages; And Incidentally of the Flies in Those Western Parts; And Why the Americans Be Not Black; Etc.; XI: Of the Paintings, Marks, Incisions, and Ornaments of Their Body; XII: Of Their Outward Ornaments of the Body, Bracelets, Carkanets, 110 Ear-Rings, etc.; XIII: Of Marriage; XIV: The “Tabagie”; XV: Of Their Dances and Songs; XVI: Of the Disposition of their Bodies, and of Their Physic and Chirurgy; XVII: The Exercises of the Men; XVIII: Of the Women's Exercises; XIX: Of their Civility; XX: Of the Virtues and Vices of the Savages; XXI: Of Their Hunting; XXII: Of Hawking; XXIII: Of Their Fishing; XXIV: Of the Quality of the Soil; XXV: Of Their War; XXVI: Of Their Funerals

O autorze

Marc Lescarbot