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Fifteen Years Before Lewis And Clarke Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, Looking To Open Up A Trade Route, Set Out From Lake Athabasca In Central Northern Canada In Search Of The Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie Travelled By Bark Canoe And Had A Cache Of Rum And A Crew Of Canadian Voyageurs, Hard-living Backwoodsmen, For Company. Two Centuries Later, In A Spirit Of Organic Authenticity, Robert Twigger Follows In Mackenzie's Wake. He Too Travels The Traditional Way, Having Painstakingly Built A Canoe From Birchbark Sewn Together With Pine Roots, And Assembled A Crew Made Up Of Fellow Travelers, Ex-tree-planters And A Former Sailor From The Us Navy. After The Ice Has Melted, Twigger And His Crew Of Wandering Spirits Finally Nose Out Into The Athabasca River. Three Years ... Two Thousand Miles ... Over One Thousand Painfully Towing The Canoe Against The Current ... Several Had Tried Before Them But They Were The First People To Successfully Complete Mackenzie's Diabolical Route Over The Rockies In A Birchbark Canoe Since 1793. Subsisting On A Diet Of Porridge, Elk And Jackfish, Supplemented With Whisky And A Bag Of Grass For The Treeplanters, And With An Indian Medicine Charm Bestowed By The Cree

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Author

Twigger, Robert, 1964-

Publisher

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297829812

Category

travel

Subjects

Fiction, Travel, History

Rating

3.8 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14