The Last Voyageurs
Retracing La Salle's Journey Across America
New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.
Format: Book
Edition: First Pegasus Books edition.
Description: xii, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
In 1976, America's bicentennial, 24 young men set out to re-create French explorer La Salle's voyage down the entire length of the Mississippi River, abandoning their modern identities in order to live like the voyageurs of the 1600s.
Contents:
Make no little plans -- Reconstructing the past -- The life of a voyageur -- The bonds of brotherhood -- Stuck between two worlds -- No trails but the waterways themselves -- Trapped at death's door -- "The beginning of our hardships" -- The most dangerous product the intellect has concocted -- Parallel voyages -- The green buoy.
Subjects:
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687 -- Travel -- North America.
Historical reenactments -- Mississippi River Valley.
Historical reenactments -- Canada.
Mississippi River Valley -- Discovery and exploration.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
United States -- Centennial celebrations, etc.
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687 -- Travel -- North America.
Historical reenactments -- Mississippi River Valley.
Historical reenactments -- Canada.
Mississippi River Valley -- Discovery and exploration.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
United States -- Centennial celebrations, etc.
ISBN:
9781605989761
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TRAVEL Writing Boi | Edgewood | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274).