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Dewey Decimal Number: 971.0113092 EAN: 9780743579537 Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 0743579534 Label: Simon & Schuster Audio Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio Number Of Items: 8 Publication Date: October 14, 2008 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Sales Rank: 240114 Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington's Crossing offers a sweeping, enthralling biography as dramatic and exciting as the life it portrays. Soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France, the remarkable Samuel de Champlain comes to life in acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer's Champlain's Dream. Born on France's Atlantic coast, Champlain fought in France's religious wars for the great Henri IV, with whom he shared religious tolerance in an age of murderous sectarianism. He was also a brilliant navigator, never losing a ship in 27 Atlantic crossings. But we remember Champlain mainly as a great explorer. On foot and by ship and canoe he traveled through what are now six Canadian provinces and five American states, where he founded, colonized, and administered French settlements in North America. Despite much resistance and many defeats, Champlain's astonishing dedication and stamina finally established France's New World colony. He tried constantly to maintain peace among Indian nations, but when he had to take up arms he forcefully imposed a new balance of power, proving himself a formidable strategist and warrior. Throughout his three decades in North America, Champlain remained committed to a remarkable Grand Design for France's colony. A leader who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world of cruelty and violence, he was a true visionary, especially when compared to his English and Spanish contemporaries. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Excellent biography on the Father of French CanadaDavid Hackett Fischer lays in relief one of the worlds great explorer colonizers in his new book 'Champlain's Dream'. Born around 1570 and dying on Dec. 25 1635, Champlain would set his sights on adventure in the New World and he never looked back. Fischer reveals that Champlain had a grand vision of the French and Indians living close to one another, adapting the best of each culture, and being guided by principles of universal faith and law. Unlike the conquistadors of New Spain who made slaves ... Read More Rating: - Well Worth readingIncluded in this volume is a 531 page biography of Samuel Champlain, 109 pages of notes and 101 pages of interesting appendixes. If you already know about Champlain and are interested in obtaining an up to date exhaustive biography, look no further. If you want a good picture of what life was like in Canada 400 years ago, or, for that matter in France during the time of Henry IV - Louis XII, it's here. And these were fascinating times and places. Take Canada. There is the city of Quebec with a population ... Read More Rating: - A prince among imperialists Ah, would that more of the explorers and conquerors who sallied forth from Western Europe after the fourteenth century had been men of the caliber of Samuel de Champlain. The history of imperialistic violence and exploitation might have been much different. David Hackett Fischer makes a reasoned case for this. Fischer's book strikes me as a work analogous to what has been said of Cezanne's paintings. They are painters' paintings. And so this seems to me to be a historians' history. Well footnoted and ... Read More Rating: - Makes Good Use Of Available Research Material To Compose A Superlative Work.The author, a Pulitzer Prize winning Professor of History at Brandeis University, has here constructed the definitive biography of Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec (1608) and one of the most fascinating figures within the chronicle of North America. As with his prior books, Fischer relies for source material upon original documents, rather than by paraphrasing writings from other historians, and his contempt for those who are "apostles of political correctness" is well known and, in this instance, is largely ... Read More Rating:  - Exploring The Explorer Of New FranceA Vine Review (Thanks for the book, Amazon!) Brave, tough, ever-curious, Samuel de Champlain stood out from other daring Europeans voyaging to the Americas for his qualities of decency and sensitivity. That is the take David Hackett Fischer offers in this lengthy, engrossing 2008 biography of the 17th century French captain. Canada at the time was desired less for habitation than for quick-hauled treasures of fur and fish. Farther south, in warmer climes, the Spanish hunted gold and the British ... Read More |
