Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West - Softcover

Jenish, D'Arcy

 
9780803224520: Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803224524 ISBN 13: 9780803224520
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770–1857), is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America, between the Hudson’s Bay Company and its Montreal-based rival, the North West Company, and among the various First Nations thrown into disarray by the advent of guns, horses, and alcohol.

Less celebrated than his contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Thompson spent nearly three decades, beginning in 1784, surveying and mapping more than 1.2 million square miles of largely uncharted Indian territory. Traveling across the prairies, over the Rockies, and on to the Pacific, Thompson transformed the raw data of his explorations into a map of the Canadian West. Measuring ten feet by seven feet and exhibiting astonishing accuracy, the map became essential to the politicians and diplomats who would decide the future of the rich and promising lands of the West. Yet its creator worked without personal glory and died in penniless obscurity.

Drawing extensively on Thompson’s personal journals and illustrated with his detailed sketches, intricate notebook pages, and the map itself, Epic Wanderer charts the life of a man who risked everything in the name of scientific advancement and exploration.

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D’Arcy Jenish is the author of Indian Fall: The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy and the best-selling The Stanley Cup: One Hundred Years of Hockey at Its Best.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803224524
ISBN 13 
9780803224520
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Anzahl der Seiten
309
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