David Thompson William E Moreau (5 results)

432 Seiten 15.24 x 3.81 x 22.86 Sehr gut, fast ungelesen. ISBN 10 / ISBN 13: 0773535586 / 9780773535589. 900 Gramm Sprache: Englisch. Karton mit Original Schutzumschlag.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. David Thompsona?Ts 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 Thompsona?Ts writings, this edition completes the great surveyor and fur tradera?Ts spirited autobiographical narrative. In the 1848 Travels, Thompson describes his most enduring historical legacy - the extension of the fur trade across the Continental Divide between 1807 and 1812. During these years he established several Nora?Twester trading posts, made contact with the tribal peoples of the Columbia Plat.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 432 pages. 9.00x6.20x1.60 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. (lxiv) 352 pp. followed by maps. Red cloth decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white pictures and fold-out maps. Very light wear; no interior markings. The Contents are: Preface and Acknowledgments; Historical Introduction; Textual Introduction; The Travels, 1850 Version; Youth: 1784 - 1790; Hudson's Bay Company Years: 1790 - 1797; First Year with the North West Company: 1797 - 1798; Westward: 1798 - 1807; Appendix One: Discarded Page 22; Appendix Two: Brief Biographies; and Bibliography; followed by an index. Size: 8vo. Book. …

[978-0-7735-3557-2] 2009. (hardcover) Fine. lxiv, 352pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards; lettering and Champlain Society crest in gold to spine; Champlain Society crest blind-stamped at centre of top board. Tight, bright, and clean. B&W illus., maps, including folding.