Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a young Frenchman of New France, was captured and adopted by the Mohawk, escaped, and spent the next three decades trading and exploring from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. These are his own narratives of 1652 to 1684, in their quaint seventeenth-century English, telling of hunger, war parties, beaver hunts and the venture that led to the Hudson’s Bay Company.
A raw first-hand source for the fur trade and the Native nations of the north, for readers of exploration history. Download the free EPUB.