Inquietus: La Salle in the Illinois Country (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781734035407)

Inquietus takes a fresh look at the achievements-and setbacks of Ren -Robert Cavelier, a seventeenth-century French adventurer, later known simply as La Salle, in the Illinois Country. This work reassesses assumptions about the explorer that have been repeated and used as source over the last 150 years. It brings to light and identifies significant places in the upper Illinois Valley that are associated with La Salle and his enterprise, and it takes a critical look at previous assumptions based on ambiguous or misleading information found in seventeenth-century maps, reports, and correspondences. Inquietus also incorporates subjects such as Ice Age geology, geography, and climatology to help the reader to better understand the environment and conditions of seventeenth-century Illinois, it explores linguistic problems associated with La Salle's ability to communicate with Native American groups, and it examines rivalries between the explorer and the Jesuits, and between La Salle and other French explorers. Lastly, Inquietus reviews La Salle's Illinois Country legacy; how his observations about the Illinois Valley waterways, landscape, and natural resources have been mined, harvested, or otherwise manipulated by the government, private companies, and individuals. This is an eye-opening and much-needed reexamination of La Salle in today's Illinois.

Author: Mark Walczynski
ISBN-10: 1734035404
ISBN-13: 9781734035407
Publisher: Center for French Colonial Studies
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2019
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.27d