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No Ordinary Risks: Epic Historic Explorations from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Sea
Not yet published
Expected 3 May 27Three thrilling journeys told in vivid detail by men who risked their lives to open up the North.
In his search for Sir John Franklin’ s men, James Anderson travelled 600 miles down 84 sets of rapids in the treacherous Great Fish River on his way to the Arctic Sea.
Wrestling rapids in birchbark canoes waterproofed with tree resin and bear fat, Robert Campbell fought his way up BC’ s tumultuous Liard River, and ventured across the mountains to the unknown Yukon.
Pompous, dislikeable Augustus Peers watched as each of his men carried 168-pound packs of trade goods into regions where all the rivers flowed northward. He wrote about his experiences and his long-lost manuscript, unearthed by the author, reveals his evocative and expressive writing.
Nancy Marguerite Anderson expertly weaves the journals of these three remarkable Hudson’ s Bay Company men into a gripping and powerful tale of daring and dangerous explorations.
In his search for Sir John Franklin’ s men, James Anderson travelled 600 miles down 84 sets of rapids in the treacherous Great Fish River on his way to the Arctic Sea.
Wrestling rapids in birchbark canoes waterproofed with tree resin and bear fat, Robert Campbell fought his way up BC’ s tumultuous Liard River, and ventured across the mountains to the unknown Yukon.
Pompous, dislikeable Augustus Peers watched as each of his men carried 168-pound packs of trade goods into regions where all the rivers flowed northward. He wrote about his experiences and his long-lost manuscript, unearthed by the author, reveals his evocative and expressive writing.
Nancy Marguerite Anderson expertly weaves the journals of these three remarkable Hudson’ s Bay Company men into a gripping and powerful tale of daring and dangerous explorations.
320 pages, Paperback
Expected publication May 3, 2027
About the author
Nancy Marguerite Anderson
6 books4 followersEvery March between 1826 and 1854, the York Factory Express began its journey from the Hudson's Bay Company's Pacific coast headquarters at Fort Vancouver. They paddled their canoe-shaped boats up the Columbia River to the base of the Rocky Mountains at Boat Encampment, a thousand upriver miles from home. At Jasper's House they were three thousand feet above sea level. Their river route would return them to salt water once more at York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay. On their journey home they would do a similar climb and descent, reaching Fort Vancouver seven months after they had departed.
The stories of the York Factory Express, and of the Saskatchewan Brigades east of the Rockies, are told in the voices of the educated gentlemen who kept the journals. However, the voyageurs who made the journey possible are the invisible, unnamed Canadiens, Orkneymen, Iroquois, and their Métis children and grandchildren, who powered the boats across the continent every year. Their history was oral: if the traders had not preserved the stories the voyageurs told them, we would not know this history today -- as it is portrayed in The York Factory Express.
My current website is at:
http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/
The stories of the York Factory Express, and of the Saskatchewan Brigades east of the Rockies, are told in the voices of the educated gentlemen who kept the journals. However, the voyageurs who made the journey possible are the invisible, unnamed Canadiens, Orkneymen, Iroquois, and their Métis children and grandchildren, who powered the boats across the continent every year. Their history was oral: if the traders had not preserved the stories the voyageurs told them, we would not know this history today -- as it is portrayed in The York Factory Express.
My current website is at:
http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/
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