The Voyages of Jacques Cartier. (book reviews)

With the exception of its introductory chapter, this book is basically a new edition of a well-known 1924 work The Voyages of Jacques Cartier, originally translated and edited by Henry P. Biggar. No doubt, the decision to republish this work was inspired by the recent "Columbomania" and its renewed focus on America in the age of exploration.

As Ramsay Cook points out in his introductory chapter "Donnacona Discovers Europe: Rereading Jacques Cartier's Voyages," these sixteenth-century accounts of northeast Canada are "the most informative and reliable French ...

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