Thompson's Highway: The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3

by Alan Twigg

For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the Rockies prior to 1850. This lively and unprecedented panorama introduces remarkable but little-known characters such as the wandering artist Paul Kane; the spy Henry James Warre; the botanist David Douglas; the "white...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553800397
• ISBN13: 9781553800392
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"