Painter In A Savage Land: The Strange Saga Of The First European Artist In North America
by Miles Harvey /
2008 / English / EPUB
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Describes how, in 1564, a group of three hundred French Protestants arrived in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, with the intention of building a permanent European settlement and the colony's eventual destruction by Spanish conquistadors, all recorded in the journal and spectacular drawings of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, the first professional artist to visit North America. 30,000 first printing.
