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  • The Unexploited West: A Compilation of all of the Authentic Information Available at the Present Time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada

    by Ernest John Chambers ...
    When in 1867 the four principal British provinces in the eastern portion of North America were confederated under the British North America Act and became the original Dominion of Canada, the vast regions of the west vaguely known under several designations such as the “Hudson’s Bay Territory,” the “Northwest Territory” and “Rupert’s Land,” and extending from the United States boundary to Arctic ... Read more

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  • A History of Canada in Ten Maps

    Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land

    by Adam Shoalts ...
    **Winner of the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionThe sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called “Canada” like it’s never been told before.**Every map tells a story. And every map has a purpose--it invites us to go somewhere we've never been. It’s ... Read more

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  • Sources of the River, 2nd Edition

    The Artwork of Ray Troll

    by Ray Troll ...
    In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Epic Wanderer

    David Thompson and the Opening of the West

    by D'Arcy Jenish ...
    **WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA MEDAL FOR CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY“Thompson’s story is a rich piece of the country’s heritage and D’Arcy Jenish has done a great service to history by not only recounting the extraordinary tale but fleshing out its enduring significance.” —Calgary Herald**Canada’s forgotten masterpiece—a great map measuring six feet, nine inches by ten feet, four inches ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to The NorThern Ocean in The Years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1772

    by Samuel Hearne ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beothuk Of Newfoundland: A Vanished People

    A Vanished People

    by Ingeborg C.L. Marshall ...
    A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information concerning every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts and social life. Ingeborg Marshall gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was completely destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1

    The Travels, 1850 Version

    by David Thompson, William E. Moreau ...
    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 peoples 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 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Once and Future Great Lakes Country

    An Ecological History

    by John L. Riley ...
    Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • My life with the Eskimo

    by Vilhjalmur Stefansson ...
    The plans of my second expedition took gradual shape during the years 1906-1907, while I was still north of the Arctic circle engaged in the work of my first expedition. It was once intended that I should be the ethnologist of the Leffingwell-Mikkelsen Arctic Expedition, sometimes known as the Anglo-American Polar Expedition, which sailed from Victoria, British Columbia, in the spring of 1906. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Travels of David Thompson

    Volume I the Hudson’S Bay Company 1784–1797, the Missouri, Mississippi, and Lake Superior, 1797–1798

    by Sean T. Peake ...
    At age 75, David Thompson began to write about his life of exploration and surveying in western North America from 1784 to 1812. At this point, how-ever, the odds of ?nishing were slim; his eyesight was failing, his body was worn out after years of strain on portages and mountain passes. For ?ve years he toiled with rewrites and revisions, never able to set the ?nal account in order. On 16 January ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Essential Lewis and Clark

    by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark ...
    With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English.At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the ... Read more

    $27.64 CAD

  • The United States Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of the Continental United States

    by John Abbott, David Thompson, Meriwether Lewis ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    The United States Exploration Anthology features texts from (or about) Daniel Boone, David Thompson, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Colonel John C Fremont. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 5 books included in this huge volume.The Anthology tells the tale of the journeys of discovery and exploration of the continental United States by ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD