Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac (LOA #53)
By Francis Parkman
Edited by William Taylor
By Francis Parkman
Edited by William Taylor
Part of Library of America Francis Parkman Edition
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$45.00
May 01, 1991 | ISBN 9780940450547
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Praise
“Like Thucydides, Francis Parkman conceived of historical inquiry as a literary enterprise of the highest order, requiring both scientific method and the art of rendering a story. As he narrated the sufferings of the French explorers, he studied early maps in order to imagine the wilderness as seen through their eyes. The ideal historical narrator, Parkman felt, ‘must himself be, as it were, a sharer or spectator of the action he described.’ He wrote as though he were a fellow-explorer at Champlain’s side.” — The New Yorker