Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre Radisson - signed with personal dedication

Description: Signed by the author. Can be dedicated at buyer's request.New, unread copy Winner of the 2020 RBC Charles Taylor Prize, a $30,000 award for the best literary non-fiction book published in Canada.An Amazon best-seller with a 4.6 star rating and 90 reviews. Sold by the author, who will sign the book with a dedication. The Book: Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as "an eager hustler with no known scruples." Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a powerful family, only to escape to New York City after less than a year. After being recaptured, he defected from a raiding party to the Dutch in New York, lived in early New Amsterdam (Manhattan) and crossed the Atlantic to Holland--thus beginning a lifetime of seized opportunities and frustrated ambitions. He travelled, explored and traded through Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois in the very early years of the fur trade, joined an Iroquois war party and saw one of the great Feasts of the Dead in the upper Great Lakes.A guest among First Nations communities, French fur traders, and royal courts; witness to London's Great Plague and Great Fire; and unwitting agent of the Jesuits' corporate espionage, Radisson double-crossed the English, French, Dutch, and his adoptive Mohawk family alike, found himself marooned by pirates in Spain, and lived through shipwreck on the reefs of Venezuela. His most lasting venture as an Artic fur trader led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, which operates today, 350 years later, as North America's oldest corporation. Sourced from Radisson's journals, which are the best first-hand accounts of 17th century Canada, Bush Runner tells the extraordinary true story of this protean 17th-century figure, a man more trading partner than colonizer, a peddler of goods and not worldview--and with it offers a fresh perspective on the world in which he lived.Product IdentifiersPublisherBiblioasisISBN-101771962372ISBN-139781771962377eBay Product ID (ePID)248525895Product Key FeaturesFormatTrade PaperbackPublication Year2019LanguageEnglishDimensionsWeight15.5 OzWidth6in.Height0.8in.Length9in.Additional Product FeaturesIllustratedYesAge LevelTradeSeriesUntold Lives Ser.Copyright Date2018AuthorMark BourrieNumber of Pages320 PagesLc Classification NumberF1060.7.R15b68 2019ReviewsPraise for Bush Runner: Born in France around 1636, Radisson joined his half-sisters at a trading post in Canada when he was about 15. Within a year, he was captured by a Mohawk raiding party, but he impressed them so much that he was assimilated into their society. That was the beginning of an odyssey that no guest settling in for quiet night at a Radisson Blu could possibly invent. -- MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE "A dark adventure story that sweeps the reader through a world filled with surprises. The book is compelling, authoritative, not a little disturbing -- and a significant contribution to the history of 17th-century North America." --Ken McGoogan, The Globe and Mail "Highly entertaining reading...fascinating...an engaging achievement." --The Winnipeg Free Press "Bourrie's writing is grounded in a strong sense of place, partly because of his own extensive knowledge of the land and partly because of Radisson's descriptive storytelling abilities...offering a valuable and rare glimpse into 17th-century North America." --Canadian Geographic "The writing is lively, the descriptions of 17th century Indigenous life are cinematic and, despite Radisson's many personal flaws, it is easy to admire his chutzpah." --ARTSFILE

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