The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century - France and England in North America Part Two (Paperback)

1910. Parkman, American historian, studied and wrote about the history of Canada and the early Northwest. Parkman writes in the Preface: Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians. Full as they are of dramatic and philosophic interest, bearing strongly on the political destinies of America, and closely involved with the history of its native population, it is wonderful that they have been left so long in obscurity. While the infant colonies of England still clung feebly to the shores of the Atlantic, events deeply ominous to their future were in progress, unknown to them, in the very heart of the continent. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.