Bush runner : the adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson / Mark Bourrie.

By:

Bourrie, Mark, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Description: 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781771962377 (trade paperback)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographies.

DDC classification:

971.016092 23

Summary: "The book is a biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat trade, but was stymied all his life. He lived through fantastic advenures: capture and adoption by the Mohawks in 1652, escape to early New York City, trading partner with the indigenous people of the Great Lakes, defecting from the French and witnessing the Great Plague and Great Fire of London, defecting back to the French, co-founding the Hudson's Bay Company, running with pirates ... and so on. A fascinating and remarkable life story that is finally being told."- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Biography	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Non-fiction	971. 016 RAD -B (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33321003171981

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The book is a biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat trade, but was stymied all his life. He lived through fantastic advenures: capture and adoption by the Mohawks in 1652, escape to early New York City, trading partner with the indigenous people of the Great Lakes, defecting from the French and witnessing the Great Plague and Great Fire of London, defecting back to the French, co-founding the Hudson's Bay Company, running with pirates ... and so on. A fascinating and remarkable life story that is finally being told."- Provided by publisher.

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