LibGuides: Primary Sources: Exploration & Discovery: Champlain, Samuel de

Online Sources: Samuel de Champlain

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Samuel de Champlain Introduces Firearms to Native Warfare, 1609

Book Sources: Samuel de Champlain

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Explorers of the American East by Kelly K. Chaves; Oliver C. Walton; Jay H. Buckley (Contribution by); Jeffery D. Nokes (Contribution by)
Call Number: E121 .C578 2019

ISBN: 1440839301

"Contains some 100 primary source documents that include ledgers, travel accounts, autobiographies, official reports, memoirs, logbooks, patents, letters, articles of agreement, and corporate minutes"
Narrative of a voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

Translated from the original and unpublished manuscript, with a biographical notice and notes by Alice Wilmere. Edited by Norton Shaw.
Samuel de Champlain before 1604 by Conrad E. Heidenreich and K. Janet Ritch
Call Number: F1030.1 .S26 2010

ISBN: 0773537570

Des Sauvages and other Documents related to the Period
The voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain, (1604-1616) by Samuel de Champlain
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tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with introduction and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
Voyages du sieur de Champlain, ou, Journal ès découvertes de la Nouvelle France by Samuel de Champlain
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Voyages of Samuel de Champlain by Samuel de Champlain
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Tr. from the French by Charles Pomeroy Otis, PH. D. With historical illustrations and a memoir by Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A. M.
Voyages of Samuel de Champlain 1604-1618: with a map and two plans by Samuel de Champlain
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

edited by W.L. Grant

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