Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings, Volume 1Pierre Esprit Radisson (1636? 1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured, tortured, and adopted by the Mohawk, and a youth relishing the freedom of the wilderness. He was the French born servant of an ambitious English trading company and a hapless petitioner at the court of Louis XIV. He was a central figure in the tug of war between France and England over Hudson Bay and a pretender to aristocratic status who had to defend his actions before