Le territoire groenlandais dans la Relation du Groenland de La Peyrère, 1647

• Main Author: Chevereau, Antoine
• Format: Book Part
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2019
• Subjects: Scandinavie; Groenland; Sibérie; histoire des représentations; Nord; stéréotype; monde nordique; History; HIS010000; HBJD; Arctic; Arctic Island; Greenland; greenlandic; groenlandais; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://books.openedition.org/pur/117119

Isaac de La Peyrère (1596-1676) is most famous for his Pre-Adamite hypothesis, but he was also an important writer of French knowledge of the North, being the author of a Relation du Groenland and a Relation d’Islande. During a stay in Denmark, he used local archives to compile the first modern stud...