The Last Voyageurs

Author : Lorraine Boissoneault
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681771168

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The Last Voyageurs by Lorraine Boissoneault Pdf

Reid Lewis never wanted to be an ordinary French teacher. With the approach of the American Bicentennial, he decided to put his knowledge of French language and history to use in recreating the voyage of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the first European to travel from Montreal to the end of the Mississippi River. Lewis’ crew of modern voyageurs was comprised of 16 high school students and 6 teachers who learned to sew their own 17th-century clothing, paddle handmade canoes, and construct black powder rifles.Together they set off on an eight-month, 3,300-mile expedition across the major waterways of North America. They fought strong currents on the St. Lawrence, paddled through storms on the Great Lakes, and walked over 500 miles across the frozen Midwest during one of the coldest winters of the 20th century, all while putting on performances about the history of French explorers for communities along their route. The crew had to overcome disagreements, a crisis of leadership, and near-death experiences before coming to the end of their journey. The Last Voyageurs tells the story of this American odyssey, where a group of young men discovered themselves by pretending to be French explorers.

Author : Margaret Elphinstone
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802191519

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Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone Pdf

A Quaker’s faith is tested during the War of 1812 in this “stunning work of historical fiction” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker, lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister, a missionary whose adventurous spirit he has always admired. His pursuit begins by hitching a ride with the voyageurs who have canoed the rivers, transporting the tons of furs that feed the trade that has made the region a battleground of the French and British empires. Though Mark enters this brave new world with his conscience clean and his convictions sound, his encounters with a place and people he never could have imagined test his rigid upbringing. The backwoods of Canada have certainly led his sister astray; she has been excommunicated from the Society of Friends for running off with a non-Quaker. After her child is stillborn she runs again, deep into Indian country. On this increasingly desperate search, Mark finds himself among spies and domestic warriors, displaced natives, infidels, and the pious each engaged in their own battles to maintain their particular way of life. With Elphinstone’s crisp and effortless prose, coupled with her riveting, organic way with description, her fully drawn characters, and the history of the region, she “brings the landscapes and peoples of 1800s Canada back to thrilling life in her pacy, colorful and intelligent epic: the finest trip along these rivers since Brian Moore’s great Black Robe” (The Independent).

Author : Vince Welch
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594857016

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The Last Voyageur by Vince Welch Pdf

"In this definitive biography of Amos Burg, author and river guide Vince Welsh reveals a man of charming modesty whose sense of personal honor, humor, and determination made him one of the most accomplished--and celebrated--adventurers of his day"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Dale E. Wilber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1682903028

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The Last Voyageur by Dale E. Wilber Pdf

Alexander Robinson spent over a half century in the fur trade. It was an unforgiving business that literally killed many more than one participant who made a lone misstep. It was the kind of profession that you learned by doing. If you were fortunate, you had a mentor to teach you the business of staying alive and prospering on the far foreword edge of civilization. You learned how to handle a whole variety of diseases, gun shot wounds, knife wounds, plus the occasional attack by large animals. You also learned to deal with varying Indian Tribes by learning their customs and language. By the time you learned your craft the winds of history had pushed the business further west. Alexander Robinson chose to stay with his family and farm for a living. It would prove to be a wise choice.

Author : Grace Lee Nute
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873517065

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The Voyageur by Grace Lee Nute Pdf

Nute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, and legends they left behind.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015071366697

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Additional History of Les Voyageurs, the Last Ten Years, 1958-1967 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Grey Owl,Sydney Gordon,Mary Quayle Innis,Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe,William Kilbourn
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459729025

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The Voyageur Canadian Biographies 5-Book Bundle by Grey Owl,Sydney Gordon,Mary Quayle Innis,Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe,William Kilbourn Pdf

Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductory notes. In this bundle we find five biographical and autobiographical titles that shed light on some of Canada’s most important figures at crucial times in the country’s development. William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie: able political editor, first mayor of Toronto, and the gadfly of the House of Assembly. The Scalpel, the Sword celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune, a brilliant surgeon, campaigner for socialized medicine, and communist. Elizabeth Simcoe’s diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made, an account instilled with excitement and delight. And finally, two titles by the legendary Grey Owl tell his own astonishing story and advocate for a closeness with and respect for nature. Each of these books is an essential classic of Canadian literature. Includes The Firebrand Mrs. Simcoe’s Diary The Scalpel, the Sword The Men of the Last Frontier Pilgrims of the Wild

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770499935

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Voyageur by Eric Walters Pdf

Brian, his mom, and his sister Jennie have left their Manhattan home for a canoe trip in Northern Quebec in order to scatter the ashes of Brian's father, whose most cherished memories were of his childhood summers spent at a boy scout camp. Although the trip starts out well enough, it soon becomes clear that the 3 are in over their heads-literally, in Brian's case-when they take a wrong turn into rapids! It is only the quick action of an old man named Pierre that saves Brian from drowning. Seeing just how ill-equipped the family is to complete their journey safely, Pierre kindly offers to guide them to their destination. Along the way Brian faces his grief and his deepest fears of life without his father while developing a friendship with Pierre, who turns out to be somebody far more important than Brian could have imagined...

Author : Carolyn Podruchny
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803287907

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Making the Voyageur World by Carolyn Podruchny Pdf

Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade industry and became iconic images of North American lore.

Author : Frederick Theodore Witzig
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1452905983

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Voyageurs National Park by Frederick Theodore Witzig Pdf

Voyageurs National Park chronicles the complex legal and political campaign to found Minnesota's only national park. Witzig's thoroughly documented and referenced research allows him to offer a detailed view of the unanticipated disappointments and defining moments of achievement that accompanied this complicated legislative battle. Concentrating on the period from 1962 to 1975, Witzig identifies and explains the central issues surrounding the campaign including land acquisition policy, local concerns and opposition to the park, interagency conflict over inclusion of U.S. forest lands, antifederal attitudes in northeastern Minnesota, and the overstated case for the economic benefits a national park would bring. Witzig covers of the dispute over the inclusion of Crane Lake in the park and focuses on the many individuals and groups who were instrumental in the establishment of Voyageurs National Park, such as Governor Elmer L. Andersen, John A. Blatnik, Sigurd F. Olson, and Rita Shemesh.

Author : Zoey Roy,Norman Fleury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1926795903

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The Voyageurs by Zoey Roy,Norman Fleury Pdf

Author : Natalie Warren
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781452961460

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Hudson Bay Bound by Natalie Warren Pdf

The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay Unrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and constant hunger. Paddling from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, following the 2,000-mile route made famous by Eric Sevareid in his 1935 classic Canoeing with the Cree, Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho faced unexpected trials, some harrowing, some simply odd. But for the two friends—the first women to make this expedition—there was one timeless challenge: the occasional pitfalls that test character and friendship. Warren’s spellbinding account retraces the women’s journey from inspiration to Arctic waters, giving readers an insider view from the practicalities of planning a three-month canoe expedition to the successful accomplishment of the adventure of a lifetime. Along the route we meet the people who live and work on the waterways, including denizens of a resort who supply much-needed sustenance; a solitary resident in the wilderness who helps plug a leak; and the people of the Cree First Nation at Norway House, where the canoeists acquire a furry companion. Describing the tensions that erupt between the women (who at one point communicate with each other only by note) and the natural and human-made phenomena they encounter—from islands of trash to waterfalls and a wolf pack—Warren brings us into her experience, and we join these modern women (and their dog) as they recreate this historic trip, including the pleasures and perils, the sexism, the social and environmental implications, and the enduring wonder of the wilderness.

Author : Mary Casanova
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452969138

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Hush Hush, Forest by Mary Casanova Pdf

Lyrical words and elegant woodcuts capture the quiet beauty of the forest as day fades to night and autumn gives way to the North Woods winter While we are tucked in, snug in warm blankets as we listen to bedtime stories, the woods around us whisper another tale. As the golden leaves waft through the lengthening shadows, the loon sings one last lullaby, the whirring hummingbird takes one last sip, the industrious beaver saws one last branch for her lodge. Here, in enchanting words and woodcuts, is the magic of night falling and winter approaching in the North Woods. Hush Hush, Forest peers through twilight’s window at the raccoon preening, the doe and fawn bedding down, the last bat of the season flitting away. The owl surveys, the rabbit scurries, the bear hunkers, readying her den. Marking the rhythm between the falling leaf and the falling snowflake, picturing the rituals of creatures big and small as they prepare for the long winter’s sleep, this charming book captures a time of surpassing wonder for readers of all ages—and bids everyone in the hushed forest a peaceful good night.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Voyageurs National Park (Minn.)
ISBN : LOC:00185435350

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Voyageurs National Park by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation Pdf

Author : Nikki Rajala,Agnes Rajala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0878397760

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Waters Like the Sky by Nikki Rajala,Agnes Rajala Pdf

"Steeped in the history of the French-Canadian voyageur journeys in the early 1800s in North America, Waters Like the Sky is a story of a well-educated teen boy who despises his fancy schooling and longs for a more adventurous life. Andrae's fate changes when a letter with a royal seal arrives. He discovers he has French noble blood. He is part of a family in France, has a brother he's never met, and an enemy who wants him dead. Determined to locate his brother and set things right, Andrae sets out to search for Denis in the only way open to him--becoming a voyageur. Unaccustomed to the hard voyageur life, Andrae uses his only advantage--his education. He fights to earn the respect of his fellow voyageurs and gains many life lessons on his quest to track down his brother. Will he be able to reach Denis before the evil one the natives call the windigo finds him first?"--Page 4 of cover.