{"product_id":"the-francis-parkman-reader-9780306808234","title":"The Francis Parkman Reader","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eFrancis Parkman (1823–1893), struggling against painful chronic illnesses and very largely self-taught in his field, was not only a pioneering historian but an enduring one. His monumental seven-volume history of discovery, conquest, and empire-building in the New World, \u003ci\u003eFrance and England in North America\u003c\/i\u003e (the final volume, \u003ci\u003eMontcalm and Wolfe,\u003c\/i\u003e is available in its entirety from Da Capo Press\/ Perseus Books Group), remains unrivaled for its power, depth, scope, accuracy, and literary artistry. This reader, superbly edited by \u003cb\u003eSamuel Eliot Morison,\u003c\/b\u003e the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian in the Parkman tradition, comprises approximately one-seventh of the original. Rather than stitch together a patchwork of brief, disconnected extracts, Morison has chosen whole chapters or groups of chapters, thereby allowing the reader to follow a story from start to finish, and what stories they are: Champlain's efforts to establish a French empire in the vast forest wilderness; the torture and martyrdom of Father Jogues; La Salle's western expeditions and his murder by mutineers; the bloody Deerfield Massacre; the improbable, madcap, and successful siege of Louisbourg; the swift, dramatic battle on Quebec's Plains of Abraham, in which the fate of a continent was decided; and much more. The result is both an enthralling portrait of early North American colonial history and an unsurpassed introduction to the works of Francis Parkman.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51104084459825,"sku":"9780306808234","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pageaday.com\/products\/the-francis-parkman-reader-9780306808234","provider":"Page-A-Day","version":"1.0","type":"link"}