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Complex, headstrong, interested, and resourceful, David Thompson is a hero in Canada, yet has remained largely unknown in the United States. Between 1801 and 1812, this hair trader, explorer, and cartographer established two feasible trade routes over the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the whole 1250-mile course of the Columbian River. In succeeding years he distilled his numerical notations from dozens of journal notebooks into the first maps of the northwest quadrant of THE UNITED STATES. Information from a few of his previous mapwork was even used by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Publisher Jack Nisbet utilizes fresh research to convey how Thompson experienced the full sweep of the people and natural history etched over the Columbian drainage. He places Thompson's actions within the larger contexts of the Western Enlightenment, the United kingdom fur trade current economic climate, and American expansion as represented by Lewis and Clark. The Mapmaker's Attention is a remarkable chronicle of Thompson's life and travels. The booklet is released by University of Washington Press.
