David Thompson

Author: Elle Andra-Warner
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1926613325

David Thompson: A Life of Adventure and Discovery (Amazing Stories (Heritage House))

For over 28 years, David Thompson explored and mapped the uncharted wilds of North America. Download David Thompson: A Life of Adventure and Discovery (Amazing Stories (Heritage House)) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. By 1812, he had surveyed over three million kilometresone-fifth of the continentand become the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River. Yet Thompson died in poverty and relative obscurity, after receiving little credit for his achievements, and his travel narrative would remain unpublished until 1916. Elle Andra-Warner follows Thompson from his early years with the Hudsons Bay Company through his amazing accomplishments with the North West Company to his later struggle to claim his legacy. Surveyor, map-maker, fur trader and entrepreneur, Thompson left a wealth of detail about the country in his journals and spent two years Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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