Travels Through America, 1766-1768: An Eighteenth-Century Explorer's Account of Uncharted America

Travels Through America, based on the journal of Jonathan Carver, was first published in 1778. Offers fascinating insight into unexplored America--providing our first glimpses of Native American cultures, flora, fauna, climate and geography. Now reissued with an extensive biographical introduction by historian Norman Gelb, it is a unique record of America as it once was. Features reproductions of maps and copper plates from the 1778 edition.