Excerpt from Radisson the Voyageur a Verse Drama in Four Acts For over two hundred years the two white men who first pierced the wilderness beyond Lake Supe rior were overlooked by historians, - their names for gotten, their exploit unknown. Manuscript records oi unquestionable authenticity now give the honor to Pierre Esprit Radisson and his brother-in-law, the Sieur des Groseilliers. They were trappers and traders, not scientific explorers, and they were ap parently quite careless of fame. Such discoveries as were ...
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Excerpt from Radisson the Voyageur a Verse Drama in Four Acts For over two hundred years the two white men who first pierced the wilderness beyond Lake Supe rior were overlooked by historians, - their names for gotten, their exploit unknown. Manuscript records oi unquestionable authenticity now give the honor to Pierre Esprit Radisson and his brother-in-law, the Sieur des Groseilliers. They were trappers and traders, not scientific explorers, and they were ap parently quite careless of fame. Such discoveries as were incidental to their avocation were all in the day's work. But their adventures were many and dramatic, and Radisson's journal shows that he, at least, was keenly sensitive to the romantic aspects of their work and to the wonder element of the wilderness. There is no historical record of any love adven ture, such as is included in the play, but - Radisson was twenty, and a Frenchman. The other incidents in the drama follow his story closely, and many of the speeches are merely paraphrased from his journal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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