Exploring The Northwest Territory : Sir Alexander Mackenzie's Journal Of A Voyage By Bark Canoe From Lake Athabasca To The Pacific Ocean

McDonald, T. H.

Norman, OK, 1966

By University of Oklahoma Press
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Hardcover with dust jacket, 133 pages, 6x9 in, [15x23 cm], B&W photographs.
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Mild staining on the fore-edge of the text-block. Dust jacket price clipped, marked with ink, torn, chipped, creased, stained and edgeworn.
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Exploring the Northwest Territory: Sir Alexander Mackenzie’s Journal of a Voyage by Bark Canoe from Lake Athabasca to the Arctic Ocean

A day-by-day journal of Sir Alexander Mackenzie’s 1789 expedition in search of a navigable water route to the Pacific. Departing from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca on 3 June 1789, Mackenzie and his party travelled north by canoe through the river system that now bears his name, reaching Whale Island on the Arctic coast on 12 July, where ice and shallow water prevented further progress. The party returned to Fort Chipewyan on 12 September 1789.

This edition, edited and annotated by T. H. McDonald, is based on Mackenzie’s original manuscripts. In 1965, McDonald retraced the route by canoe, providing additional geographical and historical insight in his editorial commentary.

Notes adapted from the Editor's Introduction.
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