Three years travels through the interior parts of North America : for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the great lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil, and vegetable productions of the North-West regions of that vast continent, with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects and fishes peculiar to the country : together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads, and to the westward of the great river Mississippi, and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements / by Jonathan Carver.
| Author/creator | Carver, Jonathan |
| Other author | Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Edinburgh : J. Key, 1798. |
| Description | 380 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 |
| Running title | Carver's travels |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Local note | Travel. |
| Local note | 2012AH51400. |
| General note | First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. The third edition, London, 1781, was edited by John Coakley Lettsonm, who may himself have composed the book from Carver's personal narrative and from earlier writers. Cf. E.G. Bourne's article on "The travels of Jonathan Carver" in American historical review, Jan. 1906. v. 11, p. 287-302. Also published in 1838 under title: Travels in Wisconsin. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 11185. |
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