Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America

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.

Miles Harvey is the author of The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, a national and international bestseller that was named one of the top ten books of 2000 by USA Today and the Chicago Sun-Times. The recipient of a 2004-2005 Illinois Arts Council Award for prose and a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan, he teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago with his wife and children.