History Expeditions & Discoveries
Voyage to Newfoundland
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2005
- Category
- Expeditions & Discoveries
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773572683
- Publish Date
- Feb 2005
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
In his translation of Thoulet's travelogue, Scott Jamieson remains faithful to the elegance and wit of the original. A Voyage to Newfoundland is full of intriguing detail about the landscape, local culture, origins of place names, flora, oceanography, and state of the French fishery. Several chapters are devoted to the fisheries and controversies over their exploitation - including ominous signs of early failure of the inshore cod fishery.
About the author
Scott Jamieson is associate professor, Department of French and Spanish, Memorial University of Newfoundland.