Modo di nauigare nel Mare di Tramontana
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
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From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Woodcut illustration of a Taino dugout canoe, Girolamo Benzoni’s La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, 1562.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Drawing by John White (~1585–1593), inscribed The manner of their fishing and A Cannow.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
The Manner of Makinge Their Boates, Theodor de Bry, 1590.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Florida dugout canoe and typical Timucua houses, 1591, engraving by Theodor de Bry after Jacques Le Moyne.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Kryn Frederycks woodcut titled T’ Fort Nieuw Amsterdam op de Manhatans, ca. 1626.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Samuel de Champlain, Map of New France, 1632.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Jean Baptiste Nolin and Vincenzo Coronelli, Partie occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France, (Paris: J. B. Nolin, 1688).
From Sidebar: Elm-Bark Canoes
The Baron of Lahontan (Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce) drew this description of the Iroquois' elm-bark canoes for a three-volume memoir of his time in New France, which ended in 1693.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
After Hyacinthe Rigaud, Portrait of Louis, XIV, after 1701.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Nicholas de Fer, Le Cours du Missisipi, 1718.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
John Bowles, Thomas Bowles and Herman Moll, A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King, 1731.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Denis Diderot's depiction of a Parisien furrier from his L’Encyclopie, 1751–1757
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
John Webber, Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Capt. Cook.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Sea otter engraving, 1780.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
French explorers witnessed the pearl diving industry in the Caribbean, where the newcomers got a glimpse of the native dugouts used in the activity.
From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping
A map of Alexander Mackenzie’s routes from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan and then onward to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and to the Pacific Ocean in 1793. Published by Mackenzie in 1801.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
This 1822 watercolor from the Manitoba Museum’s Hudson’s Bay Company Collection, illustrates a canot du maître carrying two officers.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845. Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.7 cm.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Jean Antoine Theodore Gudin, Jacques Cartier Discovering the St. Lawrence River, 1847. Oil on canvas, 142 x 266 cm.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Paul Kane, The Mountain Portage, 1849–56. Oil on canvas, 64 × 51 cm.