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Bush runner : the adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson / Mark Bourrie.
"The book is a biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat trade, but was stymied all his life. He lived through fantastic advenures: capture and adoption by the Mohawks in 1652, escape to early New York City, trading partner with the indigenous people of the Great Lakes, defecting from the French and witnessing the Great Plague and Great Fire of London, defecting back to the French, co-founding the Hudson's Bay Company, running with pirates... and so on. A fascinating and remarkable life story that is finally being told."- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 1771962380
- ISBN: 9781771962384
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2018.
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Mark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based author, lawyer, and journalist. He holds a masterâs in journalism from Carleton University and a PhD in history from the University of Ottawa. In 2017, he was awarded a Juris Doctor degree and was called to the bar in 2018. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including a National Magazine Award, and received the RBC Charles Taylor Prize in 2020 for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. His most recent book, Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canadaâs Most Powerful Media Mogul, was nominated for several book awards.
