Ebook: Mapping the Wilderness. The Story of David Thompson
Author: Tom Shardlow
- Series: Stories of Canada
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Dundurn Press Limited
- Language: English
- epub
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.
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