Northern Trader: The Last Days of the Fur Trade

by H.S.M. Kemp

Book Overview

With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade. Harold Kemp recounts the routines and rhythms of that long-lost way of life and paints a portrait of the north as a "vast region of infinite allure."

In palpable, often gripping prose, Kemp depicts life on the trail in all seasons: paddling and portaging freight canoes, using...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889773165
• ISBN13: 9780889773165
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"