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Title: |
Rediscovering the Prairies |
| Sub-title: |
Journeys by Dog, Horse, and Canoe |
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| By (author): |
Norman Henderson |
| ISBN10-13: |
1894898362 : 9781894898362 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w illus & maps |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
203x152x6mm |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Weight: |
.234 Kg. |
| Published: |
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA) - May 2005 |
| List Price: |
20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Subjects: |
History of the Americas : History of other lands : Local history : Travel & holiday : Travel writing : Canada |
| In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the Prairies, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world's great temperate grasslands, revives the earlier modes of prairie travel. He journeys along 325 kilometres of Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley by dog and travois (the wooden rack pulled by dogs and horses used by First Nations to transport belongings), then by canoe, and finally by horse and travois. Henderson's often humourous descriptions of his attempts to find and train a dog and a horse highlight the difficulties involved in recreating traditional travel methods. Henderson interweaves his own adventures with the exploits of earlier travellers, such as La VĂ©rendrye, Alexander Henry and Peter Fidler, and the experiences of fur traders and others who struggled across this strange and forbidding landscape. His captivating account will foster a better appreciation for, and a deeper understanding of, the natural and human history of the Canadian prairies. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Night Vision: Of the Moonlit Prairies by Train; Dog: Of the Dogs of the Old Plains and of Building a Travois; "Mush!": Of Prairie Journeys Through Heat, Snow and Mosquitoes with a Remarkable Husky; Canoe: Of the Extraordinary River Voyages of Prairie Navigators; "En Avant!": Of Coyotes, Cattle and Wire, and of the Many Wonders of the Prairie River; Horse: Of the "Great Gift" of the Spanish and of What-Might-Have-Been; "Gee Up!": Of a Final Journey in the Great Valley and of Adventures with a Philosophical Horse; Day Flight: Of Home and the View from Above; Index. |
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