The Savage River: Seventy-one Days with Simon Fraser
Book Description
"We had to pass where no human being should venture."
On the morning of May 28, 1808, Simon Fraser, two clerks, two Native guides, and nineteen voyageurs set out in four frail birch-bark canoes from Fort George on the Pacific slope of the Rocky Mountains. Before them was an unnamed and unexplored river that led south and, Fraser hoped, west to the Pacific coast. Every bend threat... More
On the morning of May 28, 1808, Simon Fraser, two clerks, two Native guides, and nineteen voyageurs set out in four frail birch-bark canoes from Fort George on the Pacific slope of the Rocky Mountains. Before them was an unnamed and unexplored river that led south and, Fraser hoped, west to the Pacific coast. Every bend threat... More
Book Information
Publisher | Fifth House Publishers |
Binding | Paperback (5 editions) |
Reading Level | Young Adults |
# of Pages | 149 |
ISBN-10 | 1894856244 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1894856249 |
Publication Date | 03/07/2003 |
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