{"product_id":"epic-wanderer-david-thompson-and-the-opening-of-the-west","title":"Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Opening of the West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jenish, D'Arcy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 21-09-2004\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPopular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEpic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of David Thompson, is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against a 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 Co., and between the various First Nations thrown into disarray by the advent of guns, horses and alcohol.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLess celebrated than his contemporaries Lewis and Clark, Thompson spent nearly three decades (1784-1812) surveying and mapping over 1.2 million square miles of largely uncharted Indian territory. Travelling 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 laid out with astonishing accuracy, the map became essential to the politicians and diplomats who would decide upon the future of the rich and promising lands of the West. Yet its creator worked without personal glory and died in penniless obscurity.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing extensively on David Thompson’s personal journals, illustrated with his detailed sketches, intricate notebook pages and the map itself,\u003cbr\u003e\nEpic Wanderer charts the life of a man who risked everything in the name of scientific advancement and exploration.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nReview\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“D’Arcy Jenish tells Thompson’s story in a dramatic and entertaining way that keeps the pages turning. . . . This well-fashioned account should do much to introduce a remarkable Canadian to the public at large.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Globe and Mail\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“His brilliantly evocative\u003cbr\u003e\n Indian Fall . . . established Saskatchewan’s D’Arcy Jenish as a fine popular historian. Jenish’s new book is just as good. . . . Jenish’s marvellous effort has resurrected Thompson’s accomplishments as a great explorer and mapmaker.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cbr\u003e\nWinnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“D’Arcy Jenish makes the flat statement that David Thompson remains ‘one of the most remarkable figures in Canadian history’ and then sets out to demonstrate this view. . . . He skilfully and quickly takes readers into this account in a stirring narrative.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cbr\u003e\nEdmonton Journal\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the Inside Flap\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPopular historian D'Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson's fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.\u003cbr\u003e\nEpic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of David Thompson, is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against a 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 Co., and between the various First Nations thrown into disarray by the advent of guns, horses and alcohol.\u003cbr\u003e\nLess celebrated than his contemporaries Lewis and Clark, Thompson spent nearly three decades (1784-1812) surveying and mapping over 1.2 million square miles of largely uncharted Indian territory. Travelling 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 laid out with astonishing accuracy, the map became essential to the politicians and diplomats who would decide upon the future of the rich and promising lands of the West. Yet its creator worked without personal glory and died in penniless obscurity.\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing extensively on David Thompson's personal journals, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the Back Cover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"D'Arcy Jenish tells Thompson's story in a dramatic and entertaining way that keeps the pages turning. . . . 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