Marie-Hélène Fraisse is a journalist, senior reporter, writer and producer of a radio programme on France Culture, Appel d’air . She has a PhD in American language and civilisation and is an expert on native peoples. In 2005, she published a superb book on American Indians, the result of an old passion and several trips to Indian reservations.
She has also published several works on the exploration of North America, her field of expertise, and has directed the publication of a standard work forgotten and unpublished in France since1799, Le piéton du Grand Nord (Payot, 2002). This year, Marie-Hélène Fraïssé is publishing a biography of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, one of the most important explorers of North America. A French teenager, he was kidnapped at age sixteen by the Iroquois who adopted him. He was able to return to France two years later and worked first for France, and then for England trying to find the route to the Hudson’s Bay.
Bibliography :
- Radisson, indien Blanc, agent double (Actes Sud, 2008)
- Indiens (Le Chêne, 2005)
- Le piéton du Grand Nord : première traversée de la toundra canadienne, 1769-1772 récit du voyage de Samuel Hearne (Payot, 2002)
- Aux commencements de l’amerique 1497-1803 (Actes Sud, 1999)
- Découvreurs d’Amériques, 1492-1550 (Albin Michel, 1991)
- Ma vie pour un rêve (Albin Michel, 1989) with François Varigas
- Jacques Douai with Luc Bérimont (Seghers, 1974)
- Protest song (Seghers, 1973)
