by Mark Walczynski
University of Illinois Press, 2023
Cloth: 978-0-252-04521-9 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05472-3 | Paper: 978-0-252-08735-6
Library of Congress Classification F352.W185 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 977.01

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among the region’s diverse Native American peoples and into a vanished natural world of treacherous waterways and native flora and fauna. Walczynski also charts the little-known exploits of the French-Canadian officials, explorers, traders, soldiers, and missionaries who created the political and religious environment that formed Jolliet and Marquette and shaped European colonization of the heartland.

A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal event in American history.