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The Last Voyageur
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Author : Dale E. Wilber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11-15
The Last Voyageur written by Dale E. Wilber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with categories.
Alexander Robinson spent over a half century in the fur trade. It was an unforgiving business that literally killed many more than one participant who made a lone misstep. It was the kind of profession that you learned by doing. If you were fortunate, you had a mentor to teach you the business of staying alive and prospering on the far foreword edge of civilization. You learned how to handle a whole variety of diseases, gun shot wounds, knife wounds, plus the occasional attack by large animals. You also learned to deal with varying Indian Tribes by learning their customs and language. By the time you learned your craft the winds of history had pushed the business further west. Alexander Robinson chose to stay with his family and farm for a living. It would prove to be a wise choice.
The Last Voyageurs
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Author : Lorraine Boissoneault
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-04-15
The Last Voyageurs written by Lorraine Boissoneault and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with History categories.
Reid Lewis never wanted to be an ordinary French teacher. With the approach of the American Bicentennial, he decided to put his knowledge of French language and history to use in recreating the voyage of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the first European to travel from Montreal to the end of the Mississippi River. Lewis’ crew of modern voyageurs was comprised of 16 high school students and 6 teachers who learned to sew their own 17th-century clothing, paddle handmade canoes, and construct black powder rifles.Together they set off on an eight-month, 3,300-mile expedition across the major waterways of North America. They fought strong currents on the St. Lawrence, paddled through storms on the Great Lakes, and walked over 500 miles across the frozen Midwest during one of the coldest winters of the 20th century, all while putting on performances about the history of French explorers for communities along their route. The crew had to overcome disagreements, a crisis of leadership, and near-death experiences before coming to the end of their journey. The Last Voyageurs tells the story of this American odyssey, where a group of young men discovered themselves by pretending to be French explorers.
The Last Voyageur
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Author : Vince Welch
language : en
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Release Date : 2012-09-26
The Last Voyageur written by Vince Welch and has been published by Mountaineers Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Boatman's Quarterly review: "It will keep you on the edge of your easy chair. You'll want to read this Amos Burg book by Vince Welch more than once, that's for sure." CLICK HERE to download the first 45 pages from, The Last Voyageur (Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox) “What is this thing in me that enables me to leave comforts and a wide variety of entertainments and feel a strange satisfaction wandering down a cheerless and indifferent river, enduring hardships and eating very little and exposed to all sorts of weather . . . tonight even as I sit shivering and listening to the patter of the rain, I see myself in many places all over the world, wandering like a gull on the winds, working with the ideals of Truth and Beauty as part of my vision to bring these things back with me for other people to see.” -- Amos Burg, Yukon River, July 1928 * Amos Burg ran all the major rivers of the West when they still flowed freely and potential danger was just around the next bend * Part early 20th-century history, part adventure, part biography of the West’s first commercial outdoor guide Amos Burg (1901--1986), a native of Portland, Oregon, was the first to complete transits of the free-flowing, undammed Snake and Columbia Rivers by canoe, and in 1938 he became the first to navigate the length of the Colorado River in a rubber raft. In his daring explorations of waterways from the Southwest up through Canada and into Alaska, Burg is considered to be the only person known to have run all major Western rivers from source to mouth. In The Last Voyageur: Amos Burg and the Rivers of the West author Vince Welch, himself a river guide, weaves a passionate and well-researched narrative using extensive material from Burg’s own rich archives. History buffs, paddlers, and adventure readers alike will delight in this remarkable regional history of the larger-than-life Burg, a quintessential man of the American West and one of the last “voyageurs” of North America’s great waterways.
The Last Fort
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Author : Elizabeth Coatsworth
language : en
Publisher: Philadelphia : Winston
Release Date : 1952
The Last Fort written by Elizabeth Coatsworth and has been published by Philadelphia : Winston this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Adventure stories categories.
A sober fifteen-year-old French youth joins an unlikely party of voyageurs bound for the Mississippi boundary of Illinois, to search for a new home for his family and to prove himself to his father.
The Voyageur Canadian Biographies 5 Book Bundle
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Author : Grey Owl
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2014-03-14
The Voyageur Canadian Biographies 5 Book Bundle written by Grey Owl and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductory notes. In this bundle we find five biographical and autobiographical titles that shed light on some of Canada’s most important figures at crucial times in the country’s development. William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie: able political editor, first mayor of Toronto, and the gadfly of the House of Assembly. The Scalpel, the Sword celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune, a brilliant surgeon, campaigner for socialized medicine, and communist. Elizabeth Simcoe’s diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made, an account instilled with excitement and delight. And finally, two titles by the legendary Grey Owl tell his own astonishing story and advocate for a closeness with and respect for nature. Each of these books is an essential classic of Canadian literature. Includes The Firebrand Mrs. Simcoe’s Diary The Scalpel, the Sword The Men of the Last Frontier Pilgrims of the Wild
Voyageur
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Author : Robert Twigger
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-06-03
Voyageur written by Robert Twigger and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-03 with Travel categories.
Best-selling author of Angry White Pyjamas travels across the Rocky Mountains by canoe Fifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie travelled by bark canoe and had a cache of rum and a crew of Canadian voyageurs, hard-living backwoodsmen, for company. Two centuries later, Robert Twigger decides to follow in Mackenzie's wake. He too travels the traditional way, having painstakingly built a canoe from birchbark sewn together with pine roots, and assembled a crew made up of fellow travelers, ex-tree-planters and a former sailor from the US Navy. Several had tried before them but they were the first people to successfully complete Mackenzie's diabolical route over the Rockies in a birchbark canoe since 1793. Their journey takes them to the remotest parts of the wilderness, through Native American reservations, over mountains, through rapids and across lakes, meeting descendants of Mackenzie and unhinged Canadian trappers, running out of food, getting lost and miraculously found again, disfigured for life (the ex-sailor loses his thumb), bears brown and black, docile and grizzly.
Voyageurs
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Author : Margaret Elphinstone
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-11-26
Voyageurs written by Margaret Elphinstone and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-26 with Fiction categories.
In the early 1800s, Rachel Greenhow, a young Quaker, goes missing in the Canadian wilderness. Unable to accept the disappearance, her brother Mark leaves his farm in England, determined to bring his sister home. What follows is a gripping account of Mark's odyssey and his travels with the voyageurs - the men who canoe Canada's fur-trade route. As adventure and discovery propel the plot forward, Elphinstone takes the reader back in time and intertwines the story with enduring themes of love, war and family ties.
The Men Of The Last Frontier
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Author : Grey Owl
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2011-02-25
The Men Of The Last Frontier written by Grey Owl and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore. A passionate, compelling appeal for the protection and preservation of the natural environment pervades Grey Owls words and makes his literary debut still ring with great relevance in the 21st century. By the 1920s, Canadas outposts of adventure had been thrust farther and farther north to the remote margins of the country. Lumbermen, miners, and trappers invaded the primeval forests, seizing on natures wealth with soulless efficiency. Grey Owl himself fled before the assault as he witnessed his valleys polluted with sawmills, his hills dug up for hidden treasure, and wildlife, particularly his beloved beavers, exterminated for quick fortunes.
The Littlest Voyageur
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Author : Margi Preus
language : en
Publisher: Holiday House
Release Date : 2020-03-24
The Littlest Voyageur written by Margi Preus and has been published by Holiday House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A red squirrel stows away on a canoe to fulfill his dream of joining a group of voyageurs--men who paddle canoes filled with goods to a trading post thousands of miles away. A Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award It is 1792 and unbeknownst to a group of voyageurs traveling from Montreal to Grand Portage, an intrepid squirrel, Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge, sneaks onto their canoe. Le Rouge is soon discovered because he can't contain his excitement--mon dieu he is so enthusiastic. The smells! The vistas! The comradery! The voyageurs are not particularly happy to have him, especially because Le Rouge rides, but he does not paddle. He eats, but he does not cook. He doesn't even carry anything on portages--sometimes it is he who has to be carried. He also has a terrible singing voice. What kind of voyageur is that? When they finally arrive at the trading post Le Rouge is in for a terrible shock--the voyageurs have traveled all those miles to collect beaver pelts. With the help of Monique, a smart and sweet flying squirrel, Le Rouge organizes his fur-bearing friends of the forest to ambush the men and try and convince them to quit being voyageurs. Written by a Newbery honor author, the book has over 20 black-and-white illustrations. A Junior Library Guild Selection
The Voyageur
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Author : Grace Lee Nute
language : en
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Release Date : 2008-10-14
The Voyageur written by Grace Lee Nute and has been published by Minnesota Historical Society Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, and legends they left behind.