Twigger, Robert: Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Twigger, Robert Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe. Robert Twigger. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. 390 pp. $29.95.

The story of three summers British author Twigger "spent chasing the ghost of Alexander Mackenzie through the Canadian Rockies, retracing Mackenzie's historic first crossing of North America.... There's plenty of engaging reflection here, and if the author ...

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