The French explorer and soldier of fortune Pierre-Esprit Radisson (ca. 1636-1710) is the most romantic and least known of all the famous explorers of the Canadian North and West. He was one of the originators of the Hudson's Bay Company. Pierre-Esprit...

1636?-1710 French-born Canadian adventurer who with brother-in-law Médard Chouart des Groseilliers journeyed into the Canadian wilderness north of Lake Superior, became fur traders and eventually set up the English Hudson's Bay Company....

Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636 – 1710) was a French-born explorer and fur trader, whose exploration of 1668 led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company. He came to New France as a teenager and was captured in an Iroquois raid circa 1652, but...

This essay is a comparative case-study of the careers of two authors of New France, of the ways in which they envisioned themselves as authors, and of how they exploited (or failed to exploit) the options available to them for publication. Both men represent...