Voyage Dans Les Parties Interieures de L'Amerique Septentrionale Pendant les annees 1766, 1767 & 1768

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Author: Jonathan Carver (1710-1780) Year: 1784 Publisher: Chez Pissot Place: Paris Description: 451 pages with title page with printer's device, wood cut head and tail pieces and folding map. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in marbled stiff boards with red label to spine in gilt lettering. First French edition based on the third English edition, considered the best textually. Jonathan Carver was a Captain in a Massachusetts Colonial unit, explorer and writer. After his exploration of the northern Mississippi valley and western Great Lakes Region, he published a widely read account of his expedition, Travels through America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (1778). Initially Carver was unable to find a sponsor for his proposed explorations but in 1766, Robert Rogers contracted Carver to lead an expedition to find a western water route to the Pacific Ocean, the Northwest Passage. There was a great incentive to discover this route. The king and Parliament had promised a vast prize in gold for any such discovery. The eastern route to the Pacific was around the Cape of Good Hope. That route was both lengthy and contested by competing European powers. Initially Carver was unable to find a sponsor for his proposed explorations but in 1766, Robert Rogers contracted Carver to lead an expedition to find a western water route to the Pacific Ocean, the Northwest Passage. There was a great incentive to discover this route. The king and Parliament had promised a vast prize in gold for any

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