The Iroquois village of Hochelaga, near present-day Montreal, as depicted in a colour woodcut from Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s Delle Navigazioni e Viaggi (1556).

Featured on PDR in the essay The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram

If three shipwrecked English sailors really did travel by foot from Florida to Nova Scotia in 1569 then it would certainly count as one of the most remarkable walks undertaken in recorded history. Although the account's more fantastical elements, such as the sighting of elephants, have spurred many to consign it to the fiction department, John Toohey argues for a second look.

Iroquois Village of Hochelaga, Near Present-Day Montreal

Date

1556

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Delle Navigazioni e Viaggi


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