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LOUIS JOLLIET, by Virginia S. Eifert. Dodd, Mead and Co., 432 Park 
Avenue South, New York 16, N. Y. xii plus 242 pages. With bibliography, 
index and 3 maps. 1961. $4.00. 
This biography of Louis Jolliet, explorer of rivers, vividly presents 
this great American woodsman in many aspects of his remarkable career. 
We see him first as a child and youth in Quebec, intent on joining the 
Jesuits, yet strongly drawn to the mysterious forests, the rivers and the 
sea. We travel with him on his journeys with Marquette to the western 
reaches of the Great Lakes, and later in his exploration of the upper 
tributaries and the main course of the Mississippi, and again into the 
north Canada tundra region. Of particular value was Jolliet’s unequalled 
familiarity with the St. Lawrence waterway and his accurate mapping 
of this important route for navigation. His last major voyage is described 
in detail as he sailed along the uncharted Labrador coast, trading with 
the Eskimos, recording their language sounds in his journal, and naming 
newly discovered bays and islands. 
Louis Jolliet’s personal life receives full attention — his happy mar- 
riage and his large family of children, his various commercial enterprises, 
and his association with Canadians of his day, particularly the great 
Frontenac. 
The author attempts to explain how the town of Joliet, named in honor 
of Jolliet, who camped near there long ago, bears this spelling. In no 
known authentic signature did Louis Jolliet ever sign his name as the 
town is spelled. His father wrote it “Jollyet’”; descendants of his brother 
Adrien changed it to “Jolliette,’ now the name of a Canadian town. When 
the Governor and the Intendant of Canada wrote about him to the king, 
they wrote it Jolliet. A map, however, which purports to be his but was 
evidently copied by someone else, or at least the inscription copied, is not in 
Jolliet’s handwriting, but is signed “Joliet.” Here, perhaps, the error in 
spelling was begun, to be compounded by later history. 
Paul A. Schulze, 622 S. Wisconsin Avenue, Villa Park, Ill. 
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WATERFOWL TOMORROW, a Report by the U. S. Department of the 
Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild- 
life) Washington, D.C., 1964. 784 pages. 194 photographs. $4.00. Edited 
by Dr. J. P. Linduska and Arthur Nelson. 
This comprehensive study of migratory waterfowl of North America 
and their habitat is a cooperative editorial undertaking by 103 authors. 
The maps and artwork have been prepared by Bob Hines, who has con- 
tributed to many national conservation magazines. The volume provides 
a detailed review of the breeding grounds of waterfowl in Alaska and 
Canada; the breeding grounds of the western marshes and rice lands: the 
nesting grounds of geese and swans in the Arctic and their travels to their 
winter quarters in the U.S.A. The principal flyways are also described. 
Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall has vrovided a forword to the 
volume. 
Raymond Mostek, 615 Rochdale Circle, Lombard, III. 60148 
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