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Alexander Mackenzie (1763-1820), explorer and fur trader, was possibly the first white man to cross continental North America. He traveled mostly by canoe, determining his longitude by observing the eclipses of the planet Jupiter's satellites. He made two trips: one to the Arctic Ocean in 1789, and another to the Pacfic Ocean in 1793 (twelve years before Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark west). This edition includes both journals, plus Mackenzie's own General History of the Fur Trade.
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north by northwest, 2 miles. then south by southeast 1.2 miles...etc. etc., Jun 19 2007
By Attila Csoma - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Journals of Alexander Mackenzie: Exploring Across Canada in 1789 & 1793 (Paperback)
if you like reading that kind of stuff for a page an a half - interrupted by the description of some exciting episode for maybe a paragraph, only to return to the endless and minute directional footnotes of the journey, then this book is for you! moreover, if you like to know the distance of every carrying-place from Churchill to the Great Slave lake, then this book is definitely for you!while I enjoyed some parts of the book immensely, I cannot but feel that it was written in way too much detail, and probably for a different audience. perhaps an abridged version of Mackenzie's journals are in order.
Scott, Francis, while they may not have been great explorers (let's face it - they both perished and cost the lives of many of their companions through their sheer incompetence), were nonetheless great writers, that knew how to relate to their audience - both then and now. by comparison, Mackenzie is as dry as the bones of an old nag that died in the Arizona dessert a hundred years ago.
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