New Voyages to North-America

Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron de Lahontan, was a French soldier and writer who explored parts of Canada and the United States in the late 17th century. His significant work, New Voyages to North-America (1703), is considered a valuable 17th-century account of New France.1

The book also includes dialogues that explore the philosophy of a primitive lifestyle, influencing later primitivist thought in France and England. Lahontan's writings offer insights into the early European exploration and perception of North America, a continent that Europeans viewed as a wilderness awaiting development.12