Author: D'Arcy Jenish. Published by Anchor Canada, Division of Random House, 2004, 1st Canadian Edition, Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with lower right cover slight bend. Clean inside, tight spine.
"A gripping historical yarn about one man's ambition, his breathtaking adventures and the opening up of the Canadian West". -Reviewed by The Ottawa Citizen.
EPIC WANDERER, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770โ1857), is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America, between the Hudsonโs Bay Company and its Montreal-based rival, the North West Company, and among the various First Nations thrown into disarray by the advent of guns, horses, and alcohol.Less celebrated than his contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Thompson spent nearly three decades, beginning in 1784, surveying and mapping more than 1.2 million square miles of largely uncharted Indian territory.
