A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies [HC]

Named 2014 Humanities Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

Recently rediscovered and never before published, this buoyant memoir recounts a young man's 1729 voyage from Paris to the New World. An incorrigible rake—if not an outright rogue—Marc-Antoine Caillot documents a string of pranks, parties, and romantic escapades, and he speaks with immediacy across the centuries, illuminating racial and ethnic politics, environmental concerns, and the birth of New Orleans's ...