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Bush Runner The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson

Name: Bush Runner
Author: Mark Bourrie

Auteur: Mark Bourrie

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Mark Bourrie

Engels
Paperback
9781771962377
18 juli 2019
320 pagina's

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Mark Bourrie

Mark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based historian and journalist. He has published articles in all of Canada’s major newspapers. An award-winning magazine writer, he has also published books on Great Lakes shipwrecks, the Canadian parliament buildings, the history of cannabis, and true crime. Bourrie became interested in wartime censorship more than a decade ago, when he interviewed 101-year-old Fulgence Charpentier, the last surviving press censor, for a Toronto Star article. That conversation led to PhD studies at the University of Ottawa, where he was supervised by Professor Jeffrey Keshen, who wrote the definitive book on the World War I censorship system. Bourrie continues to write, research, and teach at Carleton University. In his spare time, he collects trilobites, chasing little fossil bugs across Canada. He lives in Ottawa.

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WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE * Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work. -RBC Taylor Prize Jury Citation * A remarkable biography of an even more remarkable 17th-century individual ... Beautifully written and endlessly thought-provoking. -Maclean's Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as an eager hustler with no known scruples. Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a powerful family, only to escape to New York City after less than a year. After being recaptured, he defected from a raiding party to the Dutch and crossed the Atlantic to Holland-thus beginning a lifetime of seized opportunities and frustrated ambitions. A guest among First Nations communities, French fur traders, and royal courts; witness to London's Great Plague and Great Fire; and unwitting agent of the Jesuits' corporate espionage, Radisson double-crossed the English, French, Dutch, and his adoptive Mohawk family alike, found himself marooned by pirates in Spain, and lived through shipwreck on the reefs of Venezuela. His most lasting venture as an Artic fur trader led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, which operates today, 350 years later, as North America's oldest corporation. Sourced from Radisson's journals, which are the best first-hand accounts of 17th century Canada, Bush Runner tells the extraordinary true story of this protean 17th-century figure, a man more trading partner than colonizer, a peddler of goods and not worldview-and with it offers a fresh perspective on the world in which he lived.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 juli 2019
Aantal pagina's: 320
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Mark Bourrie
Hoofduitgeverij: Biblioasis

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Eerste Vertaler: Javier Guerrero

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 139 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 22 mm
Verpakking lengte: 228 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 580 g

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EAN: 9781771962377

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Categorieën: Wetenschap & Natuur

Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Geschiedenis

Historisch

Aarde & Milieu

Aardrijkskunde

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Taal: Engels
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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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