Author: Chrestien Le ClercqPublisher: Champlain Society
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
New Relation of Gaspesia
Author: Chrestien Le ClercqPublisher: Champlain Society
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North America
Author: John KnoxPublisher: Champlain Society
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
Author: François-Marc GagnonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773587233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases an intriguing attempt to document the life of the new world - flora, fauna, and aboriginal. The book brings together for the first time the illustrated Codex Canadensis and The Natural History of the New World, following Gagnon's argument that both can be attributed to Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit priest who travelled throughout Canada between 1664 and 1675. Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales, originally written in classical French, has been put in modern French by Réal Ouellet and translated into English by Nancy Senior. The Natural History presents a pre-Linnaean botany and pre-Darwinian account of living things, including hundreds of species of plants and vivid descriptions of wildlife. It is thoroughly annotated, focusing on the contemporary identification of species, as the result of a pan-Canadian collaboration of experts in fields from linguistics to biology and botany. The Codex Canadensis, currently in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reproduced in full and provides both a fascinating visual account of wildlife as Nicolas saw it and a rare example of early Canadian art. Gagnon's introduction profiles Louis Nicolas and analyses connections between his work and European examples of natural illustration from the period. The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America.
Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada
Author: George McKinnon WrongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The 1st volume (1896) includes important publications of 1895.
Review of historical publications relating to Canada
Author: The Dial
Author: The Publications of the Champlain Society
Author: Decentring the Renaissance
Author: Germaine WarkentinPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802081490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Eighteen innovative essays explore not only how the European Renaissance helped form Canada, but also how more significantly the experience of Canada touched the Renaissance and those who first came to the shores of North America.
Anthropological Series
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Malecite Tales
Author: W. H. MechlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description