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Le Rêve De Champlain (2011)

by David Hackett Fischer(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

2764620934 (ISBN13: 9782764620939)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Boréal

review 1: An exhaustively footnoted and sourced book. If you enjoy academic history this book is worth the time and effort to read. The author does a great job at really fleshing out the subject, and his desire to began the country that becomes Canada. He makes a good case for Champlain as the bastard son of Henry IV of France, but then he ceases to mention it for the rest of the book. I think it might have been a reason for some of the advantages that Champlain had in the early part of his career.The apendices he writes are a little bit too much for me but the book itself was eye opening in a lot of ways.
review 2: This is a fascinating book about the father of New France. Maybe the phrase New France lives on in the places where Champlain has long been revered. But to t... morehose of us who know New England well, but aren't really sure what is covered by New France, this book provides a detailed look at the foremost explorer and settler of Canada for the French, Samuel de Champlain. What is perhaps most remarkable about Champlain is his relatively commendable relationship with native Americans. Champlain was also a skilled cartographer and he carefully documented territory including Mount Desert Island in Maine (named by Champlain) and, yes, that giant lake to which he also gave his namesake. This long story is told is generally engaging if a bit plodding. less

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