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Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (Untold Lives Series)

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He will betray any friendship, any alliance, even to the point of committing murder, if treachery furthers his own ends. 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. If Radisson, born into the peasant class, had never sailed to New France, he would have been trapped in a life of drudgery and servitude.

This time he not only endures a brutal gauntlet but is ritually tortured by the slow removal of fingernails, a scorched thumb, and pierced foot. Then I got sick and laid it aside, and when I picked it up again, the pandemic was well underway, and I found my concentration shot. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.This in turn led to countless skirmishes, if not outright wars, between the French and the British, as each tried to establish a more or less permanent presence in Hudson’s Bay. Among the Iroquois, where social mobility was based on a kind of merit, he became, for a time, a young aristocrat.

Bourrie speculates that the Mohawks were impressed by Radisson’s hunting skills and his obvious intelligence. He went through hell, witnessed and went through torture himself, escaped death several times fighting either his enemies or the elements. I can’t help but think that Radisson could have achieved a lot more if he hadn’t been quite so fixated on the fur trade. Radisson endures and thrives in the company of coureur-des-bois at fur-trading outposts, conniving priests in Jesuit missions, and the royal courts of Paris and London.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. Ottawa journalist and historian Mark Bourrie is the 20th and final winner of the RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. Prize founder Noreen Taylor received a standing ovation as she addressed the crowd for a final time. Spinning tales of adventure much sought by English and French potentates, and fostering trade agreements with Europeans, he several times crisscrossed the Atlantic with other fur traders trying to cash in on the pelt trade, mainly in the Hudson Bay area, eventually enlarging to piracy in the Caribbean.

He has written hundreds of freelance pieces for most of the country’s major magazines and newspapers, which have resulted in several awards and nominations. The skeleton is calciferous, internal, and differs from the typical Terran vertebrate only in minor details. No chocolates on the pillowcase, but cold-blooded murder, gun-running, and cannibalism are on the menu. Started from scratch fifteen years ago, the garden is naturalistic in style, with an extensive wildflower meadow and informal planting. While much beyond what Radisson wrote himself has not survived, this book does help provide a picture of colonial North America outside of the 13 colonies and tells how the French were in a precarious position.He leads us into an Otherworld as distant from contemporary Canada as any universe in science fiction. Drawing detail from fulsome primary sources including recently uncovered documents as well as Radisson’s renowned writings and record trail, Bush Runner makes it clear that Radisson’s persistence, cunning, and understanding of Indigenous life were the critical forces driving the achievements attributed to the Radisson-Groseilliers duo. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

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