Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles
containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers ... of the north-west regions of that vast continent ... : together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi, and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for the forming settlements
by Jonathan Carver
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Jonathan Carver served as a member of Rogers’ Rangers and as a Captain in a Massachusetts regiment during the French and Indian War, and also studied surveying and mapping. In the 1760s he wanted to explore the new territory acquired by the British in that war, finally finding a sponsor in Robert Rogers, who had recently been appointed commander at Fort Michilimackinac. The Carver expedition’s objective would be to find a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean.
Carver departed Fort Michilimackinac in 1766 for Green Bay, where he resupplied and headed west. The expedition explored the upper Mississippi and parts of Minnesota and Iowa before returning to Fort Michilimackinac in August 1767, where Carver found that his sponsor, Major Rogers, had been arrested for treason. Part of this book was probably written at Fort Michilimackinac that winter.
See the Wikipedia entry on Jonathan Carver for more about his later personal story, which is not in Carver’s book, and later claims by historians that parts of this book were plagiarized.
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Botany, Chippewa language, Dakota language, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Glossaries, vocabularies, Imprints, Indians of North America, Indians of South America, Languages, Natural history, Ojibwa language, Social life and customs, Voyages and travels, Descriptions et voyages, Indiens, Indian linguistics
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Evans 26745
Authorship in dispute, with E.G. Bourne attributing the work to J.C. Lettsom. For discussion, cf. "The travels of Jonathan Carver," by E.G. Bourne (American hist. rev., Jan. 1906); also A bibliography of Carver's Travels (Madison, 1910) and Captain Jonathan Carver: additional data, by J.T. Lee (Madison, 1913).
First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
Signatures: a⁶ A² B-2A⁶ 2B⁴.
"A short vocabulary of the Chipeway language": p. 215-223.
"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie language": p. 223-228.
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