{"product_id":"9780306808234","title":"The Francis Parkman Reader","description":"\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, France and England in North America (the final volume, Montcalm and Wolfe, 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 Samuel Eliot Morison, the Pulitzer Prize--winning historian in the Parkman tradition, comprises approximately one-seventh of the original.\n\u003cbr\u003eRather 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":"Da Capo Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48667943141611,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":47.59,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780306808234-1.jpg?v=1785759983","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780306808234","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}