The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1
The Travels, 1850 Version
Seiten
2009
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-3558-9 (ISBN)
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-3558-9 (ISBN)
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Presents an account of life in the fur trade and an extended meditation on the land and Native people of western North America. This book alternates between the expository prose of the scientist and the vivid language of a storyteller, animated throughout by a restless spirit of inquiry and sense of wonder.
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 people 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 travelers and surveyors and his world to a whole new generation of readers.
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 people 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 travelers and surveyors and his world to a whole new generation of readers.
William E. Moreau is a teacher with the Toronto District School Board and a sessional lecturer with the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
Preface and Acknowledgments; Historical Introduction; Textual Introduction The 1850 Travels; Youth; Hudson's Bay Company Years; First Year with the North West Company; Westward Appendix 1; Discarded page 22 Appendix 2; Brief Biographies Bibliography; Index
Zusatzinfo | 5 fold out maps |
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Verlagsort | Montreal |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 810 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7735-3558-6 / 0773535586 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7735-3558-9 / 9780773535589 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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