Francis Parkman: France and England in North America Vol. 1 (LOA #11): Pioneers of France in the New World / The Jesuits in North America / La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West / The Old Régime in Canada

This Library of America volume, along with its companion, presents, for the first time in compact form, all seven titles of Francis Parkman’s monumental account of France and England’s imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Deservedly compared as a literary achievement to Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Parkman’s accomplishment is hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly describes.

Pioneers of France in the New World ...