Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute the
first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of
northeastern North American and its peoples. The Voyages are rich
in details about almost every aspect of the region's environment
and the people who inhabited it.As Ramsay Cook points out in his
introduction, Cartier was more than an explorer; he was also
Canada's first ethnographer. His accounts provide a wealth of
information about the native people of the region and their
relations with each other. Indirectly, he also reveals much about
himself and about sixteenth-century European attitudes and beliefs.
These memoirs recount not only the French experience with the
Iroquois, but alo the Iroquois' discovery of the French.
In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of
H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters
relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command
of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the
first time in English.
Ramsay Cook's introduction, 'Donnacona Discovers Europe, '
rereads the documents in the light of recent scholarship as well as
from contemporary perspectives in order to understand better the
viewpoints of Cartier and the native people with whom he came into
contact.
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