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Jonathan Carver's Travels through the Interior Parts of North
America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 became a bestseller in
London in the 1780s, and arguments over its author's accuracy and
honesty have raged ever since. This book published for the first
time the well-known explorer's original account of his expedition.
Editor John Parker compares and interweaves the four manuscript
versions of Carver's journals discovered in the twentieth century
in the British Museum to form the text of this book. Also included
are the hitherto unpublished journal of veteran fur trader James
Stanley Goddard, who accompanied Carver; related correspondence; a
Dakota dictionary; commissions and other records; and a
bibliography of major editions of the Travels. In this volume John
Parker explains the alleged plagiarism, examines Carver's early
life, and offers new information on the land swindle in the Midwest
known as the "Carver grant." Editor John Parker was curator of the
James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, a
collection specializing in early travel and exploration.
Title: Three years travels through the interior parts of
North-America, for more than five thousand miles: ... together with
a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the
Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of
America that are the most proper for forming settlements.Author:
Jonathan CarverPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based
on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin
Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets,
serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their
discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original
accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward
expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native
Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin
Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western
hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores
of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of
the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North,
Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection
highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture,
contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides
access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons,
political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation,
literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality
digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand,
making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent
scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00895500CollectionID:
CTRG10320289-BPublicationDate: 17890101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: xvi, 282 p.; 21 cm
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