Alexander Mackenzie and the North West
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0195401867
ISBN 13
9780195401868
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1971
Publisher
Pages
219
Subject
Alexander Mackenzie -- 1764-1820
Tags
Fur trade, Alexander Mackenzie -- 1764-1820, Canadian Northwest -- Discovery and exploration, Discoveries in geography, Canada -- Canadian Northwest, Explorers, Explorers -- Biography -- Canadian Northwest, Fur trade -- History -- 18th century -- Canadian Northwest, Canadian Northwest -- Description and travel
Abstract
"'In a longer vista of time than we at present command.' Professor Daniel writes, 'Canadians will probably see the voyages to Arctic and Pacific areas as the Greeks saw the fabulous voyage of Argonauts to fetch the fleece.' The two great journeys of the eighteenth-century fur trader and explorer, Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820), the the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in 1793, are high points in the epic of the fur trade, and among the most impressive endeavors in Canadian history.
Alexander Mackenzie and the North West is an enjoyable account of Mackenzie's career that not only relates in engrossing detail the adventures of his famous travels but provides a rich background for them in its account of the fur trade of the time, Mackenzie's contemporaries, and the significance of his discoveries."--Back cover.
Alexander Mackenzie and the North West is an enjoyable account of Mackenzie's career that not only relates in engrossing detail the adventures of his famous travels but provides a rich background for them in its account of the fur trade of the time, Mackenzie's contemporaries, and the significance of his discoveries."--Back cover.
Description
219 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 21 cm.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliography and index.
Number of Copies
1
