The Mapmaker's Eye
David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
23 September 2005
Summary
Between 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the entire 1,250-mile course of the Columbia River. In succeeding years he distilled his mathematical notations from dozens of journal notebooks into the first accurate maps of a vast portion of the northwest quadrant of North America. The writings in those same journals reveal a complex man who was…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780874222852 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0874222850 |
| Author: | Jack Nisbet |
| Publisher: | Washington State University Press |
| Imprint: | Washington State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 2005 |
| Weight: | 717g |
| Dimensions: | 267mm x 229mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
”[Jack Nisbet] is Thompson’s best, most intimately knowledgeable, biographer to date.”
–BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly
“A well-documented historical narrative of an individual who had a significant impact on the Northwest part of the Northern Hemisphere. A ‘Must Read’!!”
–Gem State Surveyor
“An engaging narrative of Thompson’s travels in the Columbia Plateau.”
–Journal of the West
“Handsomely illustrated. A well-researched, well-written introduction to both Thompson and the land he was first to map.”
–Oregon Historical Quarterly
“This lavishly illustrated volume should bring added attention to the remarkable work of a Northwest giant too little known outside of Canada.”
–Seattle Post-Intelligencer
About The Author
Jack Nisbet
Jack Nisbet’s award-winning books include Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson across Western North America, which won a Washington State Governor’s award, the Idaho Librarians Book of the Year, and the Murray Morgan History Prize. His Visible Bones: Journeys across Time in the Columbia River Country, explores the melding of human and natural history in the Northwest. In 2004 it garnered a Washington State Library Book Award.
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