The Journals of Alexander Mackenzie
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Birch bark canoes, river currents and carefully measured distances shape Alexander Mackenzie's account of travel from Fort Chipewyan. His daily entries follow a party carrying provisions, trading goods and equipment through waterways interrupted by rapids and portages. Hunters and interpreters help keep the expedition moving, while rain, cold and damaged craft make progress uncertain. Small practical details, from repairing a canoe to protecting baggage from water, give the record its texture.
The writing also turns from the day's route to the wider business of inland trade. Mackenzie considers river connections, commercial capital and a proposed association with the Hudson's Bay Company. Read together, these passages show how close observation of the landscape serves ambitions for commerce and British influence.
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- Author
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 211
- Language
- English
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