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New Voyages to North-America, Volume I [Book] Goodreads
author: Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce Forgotten Books 2018 - 8
New Voyages to North America is a book by Louis Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron de Lahontan that chronicles his nine years exploring New France as an officer in the French Army. Published in two volumes in 1703 as Nouveaux Voyages de M. le Baron de Lahontan dans l’Amérique Septentrionale, it was translated into English the same year.

Considered the best work on 17th century New France for its detailed descriptions of the environment and North American native society, the book includes accounts of the two winters Lahontan spent hunting with a group of the Algonquin people. Lahontan expresses his opinions of New France and the natives, as well as of European society, through dialogue between himself and "Adario", a fictional native based on the Huron chief Kondiaronk.

Volume I has two sections: Lahontan's letters to a friend and his memoirs. Both provide descriptions of his journeys. The letters document his interactions with natives as well as superior French figures in Quebec, Montreal, and Sault Ste. Marie while the memoirs provide more in depth descriptions of geographical locations, detailed descriptions of the wildlife and lists of native vocabulary.

quer ler New Voyages to North-America, Volume I
os dois volumes desse livro estão entre os livros mais lidos durante sua época e muito influenciaram o pensamento coetâneo. o barão de lahontan detalha aqui vários diálogos com intelectuais, — em particular com intelectuais indígenas praticamente esquecidos hoje em dia, como kondiaronk — que refletem o modo de vida europeu em contraste com a existência de outros modos de vida.

atualmente esses volumes são leituras bem obscuras que só só consegui encontrar em reproduções de domínio público de baixa qualidade 🫠 estarei esperando algum dia lançarem uma cópia melhorzinha, pq fiquei mt intrigada

(obg ao livro "o despertar de tudo" por conter essa recomendação)