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  • The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1

    The Travels, 1850 Version

    by David Thompson, William E. Moreau ...
    David Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America. The tale spans the years 1784 to 1807 and extends from the Great Lakes to the Rockies, from Athabasca to Missouri. A distinguished literary work, the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2

    The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts

    by William E. Moreau ...
    David Thompson’s Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America.The second in a planned three volumes of Thompson’s writings, this edition completes the great surveyor and fur trader’s spirited autobiographical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Sources of the River, 2nd Edition

    The Artwork of Ray Troll

    by Ray Troll ...
    In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • David Thompson: A Life of Adventure and Discovery

    A Life of Adventure and Discovery

    by Elle Andra-Warner ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Surveyor, cartographer, fur trader, adventurer, naturalist and entrepreneur, David Thompson is now recognized as one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time. By 1812, he had surveyed almost four million square kilometres of the North American wilderness and become the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River. This compelling biography draws from Thompson's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to The NorThern Ocean in The Years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1772

    by Samuel Hearne ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beothuk Of Newfoundland: A Vanished People

    A Vanished People

    by Ingeborg C.L. Marshall ...
    A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information concerning every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts and social life. Ingeborg Marshall gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was completely destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Travels of David Thompson

    Volume I the Hudson’S Bay Company 1784–1797, the Missouri, Mississippi, and Lake Superior, 1797–1798

    by Sean T. Peake ...
    At age 75, David Thompson began to write about his life of exploration and surveying in western North America from 1784 to 1812. At this point, how-ever, the odds of ?nishing were slim; his eyesight was failing, his body was worn out after years of strain on portages and mountain passes. For ?ve years he toiled with rewrites and revisions, never able to set the ?nal account in order. On 16 January ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808

    Edited by W. Kaye Lamb ...
    Series Book 6 - Voyageur Classics
    B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly, the achievements of the Scottish-descended United Empire Loyalist adventurer were impressive. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Fraser undertook the third major expedition (after Alexander Mackenzie's and Lewis and Clark's) across North ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Those Earlier Hills

    Reminiscences 1928-1961

    by R. M. Patterson ...
    Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of the Rockies, and he recorded his discoveries in vivid words and breathtaking photographs along the way. His memorable articles are presented as a collection by ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The United States Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of the Continental United States

    by John Abbott, David Thompson, Meriwether Lewis ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    The United States Exploration Anthology features texts from (or about) Daniel Boone, David Thompson, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Colonel John C Fremont. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 5 books included in this huge volume.The Anthology tells the tale of the journeys of discovery and exploration of the continental United States by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Salish People volume: IV eBook

    The Sechelt and South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island

    by Charles Hill-Tout ...
    Series series The Salish People
    Charles Hill-Tout was born in England in 1858 and came to British Columbia in 1891. He was a pioneer settler at Abbotsford in the Fraser Valley, where he raised his family in a log cabin. He devoted many years of field work to his studies of the Salish and published in the scholarly periodicals of the day. He was honoured as president of the Anthropological Section of the Royal Society of Canada ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Voyageur's Highway

    Minnesota's Border Lake Land

    by Grace Lee Nute ...
    The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people—explorers, fur traders, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, naturalists—were drawn to the region's woods and lakeshores. Indians, French Canadians,Scandinavians, and Slavs all used the rich resources of the land to follow an old way of life or to find a new one ... Read more

    $10.99 USD