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AudioLa Salle, Discovery of The Great West
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LibriVox recording of La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman, Jr.. Read in English by Phil Schempf; laurencetrask; Paul Esmond; KevinS; Kathleen Moore; Shaun Blake; Andrew Kennedy; Rita Boutros; Hopeforce1; Theoden Humphrey; Nate Oman Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) in his book O Canada (1965), described Parkman’s France and England in North America in these terms: The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman’s narrative are among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art. Parkman's biases, particularly his attitudes about nationality, race, and especially Native Americans, has generated criticism. The Canadian historian W. J. Eccles harshly criticized what he perceived as Parkman's bias against France and Roman Catholic policies, as well as what he considered Parkman's misuse of French language sources. However, Parkman's most severe detractor was the American historian Francis Jennings, an outspoken and controver…
Directors & creators
Francis Parkman, Jr.
Subjects
librivox; audiobooks;Great Britain; Spain; France; Sioux; la salle; iroquois; hennepin
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