Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia

by Stephen Hume

Book Overview

Winner of the 2009 BC Book Prizes' Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize In 1808 seeking a navigable route to the western sea for the North West Company, Simon Fraser descended the great river that now bears his name. Most of us learn that much in school----but who was this blunt, tenacious man, and what drove him to make a dangerous journey halfway across an uncharted continent?Journalist and poet Stephen Hume followed in Fraser's footsteps and canoe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550174347
• ISBN13: 9781550174342
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.2"