A COMPANY MAN PAPERBACK

A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the IndiesA memoir by Marc-Antoine Caillotedited by Erin M. Greenwaldtranslated by Teri F. Chalmersbook design by Alison CodyThe Historic New Orleans Collection 2016 • $25 • paperback224 pages, 23 color images, 20 b&w imagesISBN 978-0-917860-69-0 Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2013 by the Times-PicyauneThe Historic New Orleans Collection presents the fascinating, uncensored travelogue of a young Frenchman who ventured to New Orleans in 1729.Recently rediscovered and never before published, Marc-Antoine Caillot's buoyant memoir has been translated from the original French and published, with an introduction and annotations by THNOC staff historian Erin Greenwald, as A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies.Caillot was only 21 when he left his family in Paris to embark on his overseas adventure. His assignment to Louisiana was hardly coveted: the c