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The Francis Parkman Reader by selected and edited with an introduction and notes by Samuel Eliot Morison is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Francis Parkman (18231893), struggling against painful chronic illnesses and very largely self-taught in his field, was not only a pioneering historian but an enduring one. His monumental seven-volume history of discovery, conquest, and empire-building in the New World, <i>France and England in North America</i> (the final volume, <i>Montcalm and Wolfe,</i> is available in its entirety from Da Capo Press/ Perseus Books Group), remains unrivaled for its power, depth, scope, accuracy, and literary artistry. This reader, superbly edited by <b>Samuel Eliot Morison,</b> the Pulitzer Prizewinning historian in the Parkman tradition, comprises approximately one-seventh of the original. Rather than stitch together a patchwork of brief, disconnected extracts, Morison has chosen whole chapters or groups of chapters, thereby allowing the reader to follow a story from start to finish, and what stories they are: Champlain's efforts to establish a French empire in the vast forest wilderness; the torture and martyrdom of Father Jogues; La Salle's western expeditions and his murder by mutineers; the bloody Deerfield Massacre; the improbable, madcap, and successful siege of Louisbourg; the swif

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Author

selected and edited with an introduction and notes by Samuel Eliot Morison

Publisher

Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306808234

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.18 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13