The Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s (1682–1761) Journal of a Voyage in North America: An Annotated Translation (Jesuit Studies, 24)

Book info: The Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s (1682–1761) Journal of a Voyage in North America: An Annotated Translation (Jesuit Studies, 24) (Hardcover, 572 pages) – Brill, 2019. Language: English.

The French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America―New France, Louisiana, and the Caribbean―is among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continent’s colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah True’s new translation of this influential text is the first to appear since 1763. It provides the first complete and reliable English version of Charlevoix’s journal and reveals the famous Jesuit to have been a better literary stylist than has often been assumed on the basis of earlier translations. Complemented by a detailed introduction and richly annotated, this volume finally makes accessible to an Anglophone audience one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America. Editorial Reviews Review “This book will be a necessary purchase for academic libraries with holdings in Jesuit Studies, Atlantic world studies, early Canadiana, and North American history, including First Nations/Native American history.” - Lisa J. M. Poirier, DePaul University, Chicago, in: , Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 681-683 About the Author Micah True, PhD (Duke University, 2009) is associate professor of French and folklore at the University of Alberta. His numerous publications on early French America most notably include Masters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015).