ROSS, ERIC - Beyond the River and the Bay;

Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0802052231. "Some observations on the state of the Canadian Northwest in 1811 with a view to providing the intending settler with an intimate knowledge of that country" - subtitle. "Brings to life the exciting landscape of the Canadian Northwest in the early years of the nineteenth century when the fur traders from the St. Lawrence clashed with their rivals from Hudson Bay. Based on an imaginary long-lost manuscript by Ian Alexander Bell Robertson which was completed in 1811 but lost and undiscovered until 1963 in an Edinburgh attic. It is published here for the first time. Provides a picture of the Northwest as it was immediately prior to the first white settlement, based on sources that would have been available to a writer at that time." - dust jacket. 190 pages. Bibliography, footnotes, index. Includes five maps stored in pocket inside back board. Light wear to unmarked book. Binding tight. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. ; 8vo. Good in Good dust jacket .

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