La Salle (France and England in North America, Part III) – Discovery of the Great West by Francis Parkman

Description

Parkman wrote history as a novelist writes, and La Salle gave him a story worthy of the craft: a lonely, iron-willed adventurer who pushed canoes and crews down unknown rivers, across prairies, and into the swamps of the Mississippi delta, holding together quarrelling men by sheer force of will. The book follows him from his first Canadian enterprises to the final murderous expedition that left him dead in the Texas wilderness.

The great achievement of the work is its balance: Parkman has no patience for the romantic scaffolding around his hero, yet he never loses his awestruck respect for what La Salle accomplished. The result is at once the best-informed and the most stirring book ever written on the subject.

Why readers still come back to it

• Parkman’s matchless prose applied to the greatest of American explorers.
• The full story from Montreal to the mouth of the Mississippi to La Salle’s death.
• Equal parts military history, wilderness epic, and tragedy.

About this DodaBooks edition

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