Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the Years 1599–1602

Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the Years 15991602Translated from the Original and Unpublished Manuscript\nAuthor(s): Samuel Champlain, Alice Wilmere, Norton Shaw\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108013437, 978-1108013437\nSynopsis\nThe publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. The author of this volume, Samuel Champlain, is better known for his writings on Canada and for founding Quebec City. This account of his 1599 journey with his uncle to the West Indies and Mexico, originally intended for Henri IV of Fran.