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The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1: The Travels, 1850 Version

The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1: The Travels, 1850 Version

Moreau, William E.
Thompson, David

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ISBN10: 0773546162
ISBN13: 9780773546165
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Aug 14 2015
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 Travels alternates between the expository prose of the scientist and the vivid language of the storyteller, animated throughout by a restless spirit of inquiry and sense of wonder.

In the first volume of an ambitious three-volume project that will finally bring all of Thompson's writings together, editor William Moreau presents the Travels narrative as it existed in 1850, when the author was forced to abandon his work. Accompanying Moreau's transcription is an introductory essay and a textual introduction, extensive critical annotations, historical and modern maps, and a biographical appendix.

The definitive collection of Thompson's works, The Writings of David Thompson will bring one of North American's most important early travellers and surveyors and his world to a whole new generation of readers.

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