Gordon M. Sayre is associate professor and director of graduate studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is author of Les Sauvages Am©ricains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature and editor of American Captivity Narratives.||Carla Zecher is director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library and author of Sounding Objects: Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France.|Gordon M. Sayre is associate professor and director of graduate studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is author of Les Sauvages Am©ricains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature and editor of American Captivity Narratives.

Dodging death and success from La Rochelle to Biloxi and back, with some gardening in between, Dumont de Montigny survived to put quill to paper. His restless memoir, now briskly translated, offers a stereotype-shattering window onto eighteenth-century transatlantic life and writing.--Catherine Desbarats, McGill University

Gordon M. Sayre is associate professor and director of graduate studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is author of Les Sauvages Am©ricains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature and editor of American Captivity Narratives.||Carla Zecher is director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library and author of Sounding Objects: Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France.|Gordon M. Sayre is associate professor and director of graduate studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is author of Les Sauvages Am©ricains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature and editor of American Captivity Narratives.

Dodging death and success from La Rochelle to Biloxi and back, with some gardening in between, Dumont de Montigny survived to put quill to paper. His restless memoir, now briskly translated, offers a stereotype-shattering window onto eighteenth-century transatlantic life and writing.--Catherine Desbarats, McGill University

Gordon M. Sayre is associate professor and director of graduate studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is author of Les Sauvages Am©ricains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature and editor of American Captivity Narratives.||Carla Zecher is director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library and author of Sounding Objects: Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France.|Gordon M. Sayre is associate professor and director of graduate studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is author of Les Sauvages Am©ricains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature and editor of American Captivity Narratives.

Dodging death and success from La Rochelle to Biloxi and back, with some gardening in between, Dumont de Montigny survived to put quill to paper. His restless memoir, now briskly translated, offers a stereotype-shattering window onto eighteenth-century transatlantic life and writing.--Catherine Desbarats, McGill University