Discoveries in geography, Samuel de Champlain -- 1567-1635, Indigenous peoples -- Canada, New France -- Discovery and exploration, America -- Discovery and exploration -- French, Canada -- History -- To 1663 (New France), Discoveries in geography -- French, North America -- New France, New France 

"The Champlain journals are the most important records we have of the discovery and exploration of what is now Canada. Champlain first visited New France in 1603, exploring the Saguenay and St. Lawrence as far as Montreal. The next year he returned and spent three years mapping the coasts of Acadia and New England, wintering first at Ste. Croix and then at Port Royal. In 1608 he built the habitation at Quebec, soon to become the centre of the French overseas empire. During the next twenty years he returned again and again to explore the interior, establish alliances with the savages and develop trade. The present volume tells the story of his travels from 1615 to 1618: up the Ottawa, across the Georgian Bay, through Huron country to upper New York State and back. It tells of his first encounters with the Hurons, the Iroquois and many other tribes, and gives vivid firsthand accounts of their manners and customs: what they ate, how they dressed, how they made love. Long out of print, this extraordinary journal is now available for the first time in modern English, with an introduction by Marcel Trudel."--Book jacket. 

127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.