Description and condition: Blue cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 228pp, b/w illustrations. Very good or better with nice bright clean pages. In good dustcover with slight sunning and edgewear, now protected.
Contents: Originally published in 1904 by Letouszy et Ané, Paris. Translated from the original French by Ivy Alice Dickson. The book is in three parts - the story of the manuscript, an account of his sea voyage to Hudson's Bay, and 89 letters written in his last years, 1709-1711. Father Silvy, a Jesuit, arrived in Québec in 1673, to serve the Indian tribes. He travelled south of Lake Michgan between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and in 1678 visited the Tadoussac mission, which served Eskimos, Algonquins, and other tribes from James Bay to the St. Lawrence and from Labrador to the Great Lakes. |
