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Three years travels through the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north west regions : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country : together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great River Mississippi : and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements
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- Creator
- by Capt. Jonathan Carver
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- English
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- Fourth American, from the last London edition
- Charlestown [Mass.] : Printed by Samuel Etheridge, for West and Greenleaf, Boston, 1802
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- xvi, 312 pages ; 18 cm
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- ocm15443665
- First edition, London, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. Third edition, London, 1781, edited by J.C. Lettsom.
- An article on Carver and his book may be found in: American historical review, January 1906, v. 11, p. 287-302.
- "A short vocabulary of the Chipeway language": p. 241-249.
- "A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie language": p. 249-253.
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 2003.
- Microopaque. Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1965. 4 microopaques ; 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 2003).