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Northern Trader: The Last Days of the Fur Trade
H.s.m. Kemp
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Description for Northern Trader: The Last Days of the Fur Trade
Paperback. First published in 1956, "Northern Trader" is a historically valuable, intimately personal and vividly expressed memoir of the last days of the fur trade. Num Pages: 252 pages, 0. BIC Classification: BM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
Relive the romance of the fur trade. With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade.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 muzzle-loaders, running on snowshoes to break trails for dogs pulling toboggans, and making camp at the end of an ... Read more
Relive the romance of the fur trade. With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade.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 muzzle-loaders, running on snowshoes to break trails for dogs pulling toboggans, and making camp at the end of an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Regina, Canada
ISBN
9780889773165
SKU
V9780889773165
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Ref
99-15
About H.s.m. Kemp
H.S.M. (Harold) Kemp was born in the U.K. In 1892 and came to the North-West Territories as a boy. At age sixteen he began working for the Hudson's Bay Company. Three years later he joined Revillon Freres, then the HBC's great rival. His Northern Trader is the only full-scale recollection of the fur trade we have by a "French Company" ... Read more
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