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Title: Columbia Journals by David Thompson, Barbara Belyea ISBN: 0-295-97727-2 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Explorer extraordinaire
Comment: David Thompson was an explorer and cartographer of great magnitude. These personal journals document his explorations in the Canadian Rockies and northwestern U.S. from 1800-1811. His responsibilities were to discover and map new trade routes for the North West Company across the mountains and eventually to the Columbia River Basin. The journals depict the many hardships he and his men endured while on several exploratory trips: the impenetrable mountain snows; surviving severe winters of -30 F; the trials and tribulations of building trading posts, canoes, sleds; the demeanor of local Indian tribes; lack of food; etc. As Dr. Belyea says in her introduction, "David Thompson's Columbia journals require of the reader a perseverence that is well rewarded..the journals are dry and difficult..and the reader must work hard to create his or her own pattern of understanding". It is a worthy book from an exceptional man. The seven reproductions of maps by Arrowsmith, Thompson, etc. are quite poor in quality and I would therefore suggest an atlas for those unfamiliar with the geography of the area so as to follow his whereabouts.
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Title: Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America by Jack Nisbet ISBN: 1570610061 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813 (Northwest Reprints) by Alexander Ross, William G. Robbins, Robert J. Frank ISBN: 0870715283 Publisher: Oregon State Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent by Derek Hayes ISBN: 1570613087 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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