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Mapping the wilderness : the story of David Thompson

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  • Publisher:
    Dundurn Press, 1996
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Shardlow, Tom
    Date:
    Created
    1996
    Summary:

    David Thompsons story is one of the great tales of North American adventure. His life was a mixture of truth and legend, but he was without a doubt one of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers of the North American continent. Raised in a charity school in London, England, and apprenticed to the Hudsons Bay Company as a teenager, he then travelled extensively, recording valuable navigational information. His life was one of adventure and hardship but also of incredible accomplishment.

    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Juvenile nonfiction
    Subject(s): Surveyors | Thompson, David, 1770-1857 | Canada | Cartographers
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn
    Language(s): English