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LESCAKBOT'S “Histoire de la Nouvelle France,” published in 1609, was based on a year's personal visit and long business relations, for Lescarbot was a lawyer with one of Sieur de Mont's chief lieutenants at Port Royal. An abridged form of the English translation, which did not include the whole work, appeared in “Purchas His Pilgrimes,” 1625. The translation was reprinted in 1745 in the Harleian collection, and again two years later. Since then it has not been reissued until the appearance of this volume. The descriptions of the Indians and of early French life in Canada are full and vivid, and give one of the best pictures existing of Acadia in the seventeenth century. The volume is a useful addition to the excellent series of old travel-books in which it appears.
Nova Francia: a Description of Acadia, 1606.
Marc Lescarbot. Translated by P. Erondelle, 1609. (The Broadway Travellers, edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power.) Pp. xxxi + 346. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1928.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Nova Francia: a Description of Acadia, 1606 . Nature 122, 344 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122344c0
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