Wilderness living in the late 1700s is captured and brought to life. Thirty-one paintings show how the rugged voyageurs of the North West Company worked and lived and laughed. This book was originally published in 1994 but has been unavailable for the past several years, until now.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Visual History,
This review is from: The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories (Hardcover)
This book should be in all school libraries. The excellent illustrations bring the accurate text to life in a compelling way. I give 2-3 hr presentations in French or English as a voyageur. This book certainly covers more than I can in such a way. I would recommend it whole-heartedly as background for anyone interested in the period and the characters.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read with Great Watercolors,
By RogerOutWest "RogerOutWest" (San Mateo, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories (Hardcover)
Every spring in the late 1700's canoes would leave from Quebec and head for upper Lake Superior. At the same time trappers from deep in the central and Rocky Mountain regions of Canada would head for the same location with the fruits of their trapping labors over the winter. They would meet for a couple of weeks of trading and partying. Then they would laboriously paddle back to where they had come from.Howard Silvertson captures this time with short clear descriptions and beautiful watercolors that really make the history come alive. It is a part of history that is often forgotten. It's fascinating to imagine what it was like to live in those times. This book captures the feeling. This book should be in every school library.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
The demands of European fashion, coupled with the desire of North American Indians to trade for merchandise useful to them, created a continental enterprise that, for some decades in the late 1700s, flowed in great measure through a small outpost on the western end of Lake Superior called Grand Portage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
portage trail, corn mush Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grand Portage, Lake Superior, North West Company, Fort Charlotte, Isle Royale, Fort William, Great Lakes, Rainy Lake, American Fur Company, John Macdonell, John Tanner, Lake Huron, North Shore, Pigeon River, Checker Point, Hudson's Bay Company, Lake Athabaska, Lawrence River, Sault Ste, Hudson Bay New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
The demands of European fashion, coupled with the desire of North American Indians to trade for merchandise useful to them, created a continental enterprise that, for some decades in the late 1700s, flowed in great measure through a small outpost on the western end of Lake Superior called Grand Portage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
portage trail, corn mush Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grand Portage, Lake Superior, North West Company, Fort Charlotte, Isle Royale, Fort William, Great Lakes, Rainy Lake, American Fur Company, John Macdonell, John Tanner, Lake Huron, North Shore, Pigeon River, Checker Point, Hudson's Bay Company, Lake Athabaska, Lawrence River, Sault Ste, Hudson Bay New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
1
book
cites this book:
- Lake Rhymes: Folk Songs of the Great Lakes Region by Lee Murdock in Back Matter
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Arts & Photography
- Books > History > Americas > Canada
- Books > History > Americas > United States > State & Local
- Books > Sports & Outdoors > Water Sports > Canoeing
