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Mackenzie, Alexander (Sir) (1763-1820) [info]; Combe, William (1741-1823) (editor) [info]; Mackenzie, Roderick (d.1844) [info]. Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, in the years 1789 and 1793: With a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country. London: T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, 1801.

Physical description: [2], viii, 1 leaf, cxxxii, 412, [2] p., port., fold. maps.; 27.5 cm.

Language: English

After the preface there follow 132 pages on the history of the fur trade in the North West. Some authorities think this was written by his cousin, Roderick MacKenzie. According to the Dictionary of National Biography , Voyages , 1801, was compiled by William Combe from Mackenzie's notes. Includes vocabularies of the Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Chepewyan, Nagailer, and Atnah Indian languages. Errors in paging: page ix numbered xi; page 190 unnumbered; pages 212-216 numbered 214-218. Also published, 2nd edition, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801 ([2], cxxxii, viii, 412, [2]p.); including some material by Bougainville, London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies et al., 1802 (2 vols.); 1st American edition, New York: G.F. Hopkins, 1802 (viii [i.e. ix], 94, 296p.); 2nd American edition, Philadelphia: John Morgan, 1802 (viii, cxxvi, 392p.); 3rd American edition, New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1803 (viii, 437p.); edited by Richard Phillips and included in, A collection of voyages and travels, from the discovery of America to the commencement of the nineteeth [sic] century , vol.24, London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1809 (392p.). New York: W.B. Gilley, 1814 (2 vols.); Toronto: George N. Morang, 1902 (2 vols.); with introduction by Robert Waite, New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1902 (2 vols.); New York: A.S. Barnes, 1903 (2 vols.); with introduction by W.L. Grant, Toronto: Courier Press, 1911 (2 vols.); New York: Allerton Book Co., 1922 (2 vols.), reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1973; with introduction by Charles William Colby and illustrations by C. Keith Gebhardt, Toronto: Radisson Society of Canada, 1927 (xxviii, 498p.); Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1966 (cxxxii, viii, 412p.); [New York]: Readex Microprint Corp., 1966 (cxxxii, viii, 412p.); with introduction by Roy Daniells, Edmonton: M.G. Hurtig and Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1971 (xx, cxxxii, 412p.). Also published as Alexander Mackenzie's voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1793 , edited by Milo Milton Quaife, Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1931 (xxix, 384p.), reprinted, New York: Citadel Press, 1967 (xxix, 384p.). The 1789 journey also published in Exploring the Northwest Territory , edited by Ted Hayden McDonald, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1966] (xiii, 133p.). The 1793 journey also published in First Man West: Alexander Mackenzie's journal of his voyage to the Pacific Coast of Canada in 1793 , edited by Walter Sheppe, Montreal: McGill University Press and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962 (ix, 366p.), reprinted Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976 (ix, 366p.) and as Journal of the voyage to the Pacific , New York: Dover Publications, 1995 (ix, 366p.). Translated as Alexander Mackenzie's Esq. Reisen von Montreal durch Nordwestamerika nach dem Eismeer und der Sud-see in den Jahren 1789 und 1793: nebst einer Geschichte des Pelzhandels in Canada , Hamburg: B.G. Hoffmann, 1802 ([1], 1 leaf, [xiv], 585, [3]p.); translated by E.B. as Alexander Mackenzie's Esq. Reisen von Montreal durch Nordwestamerika nach dem Eismeer und der Sud-see in den Jahren 1789 und 1793? , Berlin: s.n., 1802 (408, [508]p.); translated and edited by Mathias Christian Sprengel as Alexander Mackenzie's Reise nach dem n�rdlichen Eisemeere vom 3. Jun bis 12. September 1798 , Weimar: Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1802 ([2], 61, [1]p.). For French version see Peel 54.

Subject headings:

• Discoveries in geography
• Fur trade--History
• Indians of North America--Languages
• Northwest Passage--Description and travel

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