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A Journey to the Northern Ocean: The Adventures of Samuel Hearne (Classics West Collection)

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Widely recognized as a classic of northern-exploration literature, A Journey to the Northern Ocean is Samuel Hearne’s story of his three-year trek to are seeking for a trade route around the Barrens within the Northwest Territories. Hearne used to be a superb reporter, from his anguished description of the massacre of helpless Eskimos by his Indian companions to his meticulous records of natural world, flora and Indian manners and customs. As esteemed creator Ken McGoogan points out in his foreword: Hearne demonstrated that to thrive within the north, Europeans needed to apprentice themselves to the Native peoples who had lived there for centuries-a lesson lost on many who followed.

First published in 1795, more than two decades after Hearne had completed his trek, the memoir used to be in the beginning referred to as A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean within the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772. This Classics West edition brings a a very powerful piece of Canadian history back into print.

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