{"product_id":"frances-parkman-rdr-pb-9780306808234","title":"Frances Parkman Rdr PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Samuel Eliot Morison\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: North American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355981897879,"sku":"9780306808234","price":2221.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780306808234.webp?v=1767309194","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/frances-parkman-rdr-pb-9780306808234","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}