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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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Title: Travels to the westward of the Allegany Mountains ...
Translated ... by B. Lambert.Publisher: British Library, Historical
Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the
United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from
the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers
to the European settlements in North America through independence,
with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain.
Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early
colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual
framework of this collection highlights 16th century English,
Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. ++++The below data
was compiled from various identification fields in the
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British Library Michaux, Franc ois Andre; Lambert, B; 1805. xvi.
350 p.; 8 . 10408.e.20.
A Series Of Annotated Reprints Of Some Of The Best And Rarest
Contemporary Volumes Of Travel, Descriptive Of The Aborigines And
Social And Economic Conditions In The Middle And Far West, During
The Period Of Early American Settlement. Contains Andre Michaux's
Travels Into Kentucky, 1793-96; Francois Andre Michaux's Travels
West Of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddus Mason Harris's Journal
Of A Tour Northwest Of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
A Series Of Annotated Reprints Of Some Of The Best And Rarest
Contemporary Volumes Of Travel, Descriptive Of The Aborigines And
Social And Economic Conditions In The Middle And Far West, During
The Period Of Early American Settlement. Contains Andre Michaux's
Travels Into Kentucky, 1793-96; Francois Andre Michaux's Travels
West Of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddus Mason Harris's Journal
Of A Tour Northwest Of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
A Series Of Annotated Reprints Of Some Of The Best And Rarest
Contemporary Volumes Of Travel, Descriptive Of The Aborigines And
Social And Economic Conditions In The Middle And Far West, During
The Period Of Early American Settlement. Contains Andre Michaux's
Travels Into Kentucky, 1793-96; Francois Andre Michaux's Travels
West Of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddus Mason Harris's Journal
Of A Tour Northwest Of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
A Series Of Annotated Reprints Of Some Of The Best And Rarest
Contemporary Volumes Of Travel, Descriptive Of The Aborigines And
Social And Economic Conditions In The Middle And Far West, During
The Period Of Early American Settlement. Contains Andre Michaux's
Travels Into Kentucky, 1793-96; Francois Andre Michaux's Travels
West Of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddus Mason Harris's Journal
Of A Tour Northwest Of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring
Michaux's work to modern readers and scientists. Known to today's
biologists primarily as the 'Michx,' at the end of more than 700
plant names, AndrE Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under
the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out
and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and
ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry,
agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries
and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des chEnes
de l'AmErique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized
from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the
first account of all plants known in eastern North America.
Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early
republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, AndrE
Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785-1797 is the
first complete English edition of Michaux's American journals. This
copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from
his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial
introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger
scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux
traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi
River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely
rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the
many hardships - debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild
animals, even shipwreck - that Michaux endured on the North
American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the
soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still
reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western
science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even
ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of
Madagascar.
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