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Author: Derek Hayes Publisher: D & M Publishers ISBN: 9781926706597 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.
Author: James K. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
Biography of Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer and North West Company fur trader of 18th century Canada, who discovered the Mackenzie River, and who was the first man to reach the Pacific overland north of Mexico. Includes maps, photographs, list of Indian groups encountered by Mackenzie, and bibliography.
Author: Brian Castner Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385541635 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 442
Book Description
In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of globalization and climate change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides, to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named "Disappointment." Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money.
Author: Alexander Mackenzie Publisher: ISBN: 9781589760363 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 430
Book Description
Alexander Mackenzie was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe ... 12 years before Lewis and Clark.
Author: Alexander Mackenzie Publisher: New York : Citadel Press ISBN: Category : Explorers Languages : en Pages : 440
Book Description
Reproduction of Mackenzie's journals of expeditions from Lake Athabasca to the Arctic Ocean and from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean, first published in 1801. Includes account of development of fur trade by the Northwest Company.
Author: Barry M. Gough
Author: Barry M. Gough
Author: Roy Daniells
Author: Walter Noble Sage
Author: Derek Hayes
Author: Mr. Maclauries
Author: James K. Smith
Author: Brian Castner
Author: Alexander Mackenzie
Author: Alexander Mackenzie
Author: Alexander Mackenzie