The Illustrated Voyageur

About this book

The Illustrated Voyageur is a colorful book of paintings and stories depicting the adventures of canoeing through the northern wilderness in the late 1700s. In birchbark canoes the voyageurs paddled on long journeys of 1 000 miles or more following winding chains of lakes and rivers through the spectacular pristine beauty of the north. Thirty-one paintings show the rugged canoemen of the North West Company - running rapids portaging weathering storms camping and cooking in wild terrain - en route to their gala summer rendezvous on the shores of Lake Superior.