{"product_id":"9781631064838","title":"Mathematics 2019: Your Daily Epsilon of Math: 12-Month Calendar Featuring a Math Equation a Day","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"My desire was to paint a series of word pictures of the North as I knew it, of the fur trade of an earlier day, and of the men and women who walked the stage at that particular time.\" -Harold Kemp\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1956, \u003ci\u003eNorthern Trader\u003c\/i\u003e is a historically valuable, intimately personal and vividly expressed memoir of the last days of the fur trade. A gifted writer, Harold Kemp recounts the routine and rhythms of that long-lost way of life; a life that had been \"following the same placid course that it had been following for the past two hundred years\"; a life in which \"bark canoes were still built, muzzle-loaders still used,\" and where the north was \"a vast region of infinite allure in which a young man could test his characters, make his name, and earn a living far distant from the mundane familiarities of town or city.\" Kemp tells how, as a teenager, he was fascinated by a map of northern Saskatchewan with \"too many blank, unexplored areas on it, too many lakes half-drawn, too many rivers that terminate only in dotted lines.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKemp's palpable, often gripping prose recounts life on the trail in all seasons: paddling freight canoes, being under sail in a York boat, packing one's own weight on portages, running on snowshoes to break trail for dogs pulling loaded toboggans, and making camp at the end of an exhausting day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqually impressive, historically, are his depictions of the Cree among whom he lived, whose language he spoke, whose skills he admired, and whose customs he respected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Kresnik","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042335146224,"sku":"9781631064838","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631064838_p0.jpg?v=1763671510","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631064838","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}