New Publication Release
Adventurers in the New World: The Saga of the Coureurs des bois
by Georges-Hébert Germain
160 pages, 300 colour images, 9 x 11”
ISBN 0-660-19075-3
October 2003
$39.95 (cloth)
Co-published with Éditions Libre Expression
For almost three centuries, the coureurs des bois traveled the length and breadth of North America, finding their way through its trackless forests and paddling its vast network of lakes and rivers – essential skills that they had learned from the Aboriginal inhabitants. This book highlights the experience of these adventurers in the New World, many of whom ended up abandoning their European roots and adopting the culture and way of the people they lived among. Over three hundred photographs and illustrations provide glimpses of the land and the life that they shared with their Indian brothers. This is their story.
About the Author:
Georges-Hébert Germain is a well-known Quebec writer and journalist and also a history buff. After co-authoring Inuit: Glimpses of an Arctic Past, he now lends his considerable talent as a popular writer to the subject of the coureurs des bois. With the evocative flair of a novelist and the precision of a biographer, he brings to life these adventurers in the New World.
About the Illustrator:
Francis Back is an illustrator specializing in historical subjects. He has created numerous original illustrations for this book, as well as serving as editorial development adviser. For the past twenty years, he has been researching the material culture of the North American Indians and of the Europeans who came to this continent. His work is included in the permanent exhibitions of many museums and historic sites in Canada and Europe.
About the Scientific Director:
Jean-Pierre Hardy is a curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and a historian specializing in the material culture of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. He served as the book’s scientific director. His expertise, and that of numerous colleagues at the Museum, underlies the book’s detailed depiction of daily life among the coureurs des bois.
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