Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette Expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations.
A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal event in American history..
Walczynski also charts the little-known exploits of the French-Canadian officials, explorers, traders, soldiers, and missionaries who created the political and religious environment that formed Jolliet and Marquette and shaped European colonization of the heartland.
His account takes readers among the region\'s diverse Native American peoples and into a vanished natural world of treacherous waterways and native flora and fauna.
Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America.
Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette Expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations
