2002, ISBN: 9780571089598

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New York, NY, USA.: Berkley Medallion Book. (Large-Type Edition), 1976. 202 pages. "By the time Sally Craig received this cryptic note, her best friend Miranda Taylor was already dea… Mehr…

New York, NY, USA.: Berkley Medallion Book. (Large-Type Edition), 1976. 202 pages. "By the time Sally Craig received this cryptic note, her best friend Miranda Taylor was already dead drowned in the Hebrides' Saligo Bay. Who was Pee MacKay and what would he explain? Sally had to find out - and so began her voyage across the Atlantic to the waiting arms of danger. A man stood ready to help her - the handsome Jeff Roberts, who had known Miranda well but swore no Pete Mackay had been in the dead girl's life. Was he telling the truth? Sally could be certain of nothing. Was it true, as others on the island claimed, that Pete Mackay did not even exist? Before this terrifying question could be answered, a grave would yawn open and Sally's life would take on the shape of a never-ending nightmare!" >>> SCARCE title by this author. >>> Has Library Rubber stamp on cover & first page. Nice reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!.. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good.. Illus. by Painted Cover Art!. Mass Market Paperback.., Berkley Medallion Book. (Large-Type Edition), 1976, 2.75, New York, NY McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1959. Paperback Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing; the prices have been neatly blocked out at the front panel and the bottom of the backstrip. Binding square and secure; text clean. No longer pristine, but remains structurally sound and tightly bound with minimal wear and with a clean text: Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 396pp + a Section of Maps at the rear endpapers. Edited by William R. Wimsatt, Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. The First Edition was published in hardcover by Yale University Press in 1959. Trade Paperback. James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language. Boswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. In A Scandal in Bohemia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes affectionately says of Dr. Watson, who narrates the tales, "I am lost without my Boswell." Boswell married his cousin, Margaret Montgomerie, in November 1769. She remained faithful to Boswell, despite his frequent liaisons with prostitutes, until her death from tuberculosis in 1789. After his infidelities, he would deliver tearful apologies to her and beg her forgiveness, before again promising her, and himself, that he would reform. James and Margaret had four sons and three daughters. Two sons died in infancy; the other two were Alexander (1775–1822) and James (1778–1822). Their daughters were Veronica (1773–1795), Euphemia (1774-ca. 1834) and Elizabeth, known as 'Betsy', (1780–1814). Boswell also had at least two extramarital children, Charles (1762–1764) and Sally (1767–1768?). Despite his relative literary success with accounts of his European travels, Boswell was only a moderately successful advocate, with the exception of the copyright infringement case of Donaldson v Beckett where Boswell represented the Scottish bookseller, Alexander Donaldson. Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His happier periods usually saw him relatively vice-free. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy. The latter, along with his tendency for drink and other vices, caused many contemporaries and later observers to regard him as being too lightweight to be an equal in the literary crowd that he wanted to be a part of. However, his humour and innocent good nature won him many lifelong friends.Boswell was a frequent guest of Lord Monboddo at Monboddo House, a setting where he gathered significant observations for his writings by association with Samuel Johnson, Lord Kames and other luminaries. In the 1920s a great part of Boswell's private papers, including intimate journals for much of his life, were discovered at Malahide Castle, north of Dublin. These provide a hugely revealing insight into the life and thoughts of the man. They were sold to the American collector Ralph H. Isham and have since passed to Yale University, which has published general and scholarly editions of his journals and correspondence. A second cache was discovered soon after and also purchased by Isham. A substantially longer edition of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was published in 1936 based on his original manuscript. His London Journal 1762–63, the first of the Yale journal publications, appeared in 1950. The last, The Great Biographer, 1789–1795, was published in 1989. These detailed and frank journals include voluminous notes on the Grand Tour of Europe that he took as a young man and, subsequently, of his tour of Scotland with Johnson. His journals also record meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to The Club, including Lord Monboddo, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith. , McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1959., 0, London: Pan Books. Very Good-. 1998. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading creases, small split and sticker ghost to base of spine. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 440 pages; Omnibus edition with two full stories. Ullin Macbeth is the attractive but arrogant owner of a small island in the Hebrides. Life gets more complex when a London model Chrisann comes for a holiday and her tent blows away. In the second story Katrina goes back to her childhood home for a rest when out of the past comes a school friend, now a debonair and charming author, who disturbs her reserved life when he asks for help. ., Pan Books, 1998, 3, London: Pan Books. Very Good. 1998. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading and cover creases, small scuff to base of spine. ; First paperback printing of this omnibus edition. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 440 pages; Omnibus edition with two full stories. Ullin Macbeth is the attractive but arrogant owner of a small island in the Hebrides. Life gets more complex when a London model Chrisann comes for a holiday and her tent blows away. In the second story Katrina goes back to her childhood home for a rest when out of the past comes a school friend, now a debonair and charming author, who disturbs her reserved life when he asks for help. ., Pan Books, 1998, 3, London & Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co. , Limited. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1966. Sixteenth Edition. Hardcover. DJ has light edge wear. Name written on front endpaper. ; Ward Lock's Red Guide; With two folded maps attached. Second is a bit creased where it sticks out beyond the pages. ., Ward, Lock & Co. , Limited, 1966, 3, New York: The Literary Guild (1936), 435pp, fold-out map, ed. by Frederick A. Pottle & Charles H. Bennett, slight soiling to pg edges, slight shelfwear, small ding to cover edge.. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket., The Literary Guild, 3, Government Printer.. 1868-9.. 1pp, a good copy. 34 x 22cm. ., Government Printer., 1868-9., 0, Rough Guides, 2002. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Paperback - 2002? - good condition - . Scotland not only defies description, it gets positively irritated by it. Clichéd images of the place abound - postcards of hairy Highland cows, tartan tins of shortbread, ranks of diamond-patterned golf jerseys... and they drive many Scots to apoplexy. And yet Scotland has a habit of delivering on its classic images: ruined castles really do perch on just about every hilltop, in summer the glens inevitably turn purple with heather and, if you're lucky, you just might bump into a formation of bagpipers marching down the village street on gala day. Scotland is a difficult country, where Celtic hedonism intertwines, somehow, with stern Calvinism, where the losers of battles (and football games) are more romanticized than the winners. It's often defined by its scenery - known to make poets weep, but half the time hidden under a pall of drizzly mist. The country's major contribution to medieval warfare was the chaotic, blood-curdling charge of the half-naked Highlander, yet it's civilized enough to have given the world steam power, the television and penicillin. Chefs from Paris to Prague rhapsodize over Scottish wild salmon and Aberdeen Angus steaks, even while the locals are tucking happily into another deep-fried supper of haggis and chips. Naturally, the tourist industry tends to play up the heritage and play down the contemporary, but beyond the tartan lies a modern, dynamic nation. Oil and microprocessors now matter more to the Scottish economy than Harris tweed. Edinburgh still has its genteel Royal Mile, but just as many folk are drawn by its clubs and cappuccino culture, while out in the Hebrides, the locals are more likely to be teleworking via the internet than shearing sheep. The Highland huntin' shootin' fishin' set are these days outnumbered by mountain bikers and wide-eyed whale-watchers. Much as folk bands are knocking out old tunes on electronic fiddles, reinvention of tradition has become a Scottish artform. Stuck in the far northwest corner of Europe, Scotland is remote, but it's not isolated. The inspiring emptiness of the wild northwest coast lies barely a couple of hours from Edinburgh and Glasgow, two of Britain's most dense and intriguing urban centres. Ancient ties to Ireland, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands mean that - compared with the English at least - Scots are pretty enthusiastic about the European Union. EU money has been poured into the infrastructure, particularly in the Highlands and Islands, funding numerous arts projects and sustaining the national identity. By contrast, Scotland's relationship with the "auld enemy", England, remains as problematic as ever. Despite the new Scottish parliament established in Edinburgh in 1999, with its new-found power to shape Scottish life, many Scots still tend to view matters south of the border with a mixture of exaggerated disdain and well-hidden envy. Ask for a "full English breakfast" and you'll quickly find yourself put right. Old prejudices die hard., Rough Guides, 2002, 2.5, London: Arrow Books. Very Good. c1973,1976. Reprint. Softcover; Mass Market PB. 192 pages. Spine and cover creases, light edgewear, pages pale brown but clean; none loose.; <B>Another fun volume in this author's series of stories about life in the village of Bruach in the Hebrides. The title refers to the villagers' thoughts on poaching. 'The Lord puts the salmon in the river like he puts the berries on the trees. They're there for all of us, not just for the laird.' Poaching isn't a crime but you do have to keep an eye out for the local police..</B> ., Arrow Books, 3, New York: Gallery Books - W. H. Smith Publishers, 1991. 543 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with line drawings. This collection contains: Street Life in India; From the Hebrid Isles; Days and Nights with a Caravan; Cairo in 1890; The Land of the Midnight Sun; Characteristic Parisian Cafes; In the Garden of China; The West and East Ends of London; The Lords of the Sahara; An Elephant Drive in Siam; Popular Life in Austro-Hungarian Capitals; Wild Mountain Tribes of Borneo; In Folkestone Out of Season; With the Afgan Boundary Commission; The Lotus Land of the Pacific; Spanish Vistas; A Little Journey in Java; York; The Slave Market at Marrakesh; New Zealand; Campaigning with the Cossacks; A New Switzerland; Domestic Court and Customs of Persia; The Arran Islands; A Night's Ride with Arab Bandits; A Quest in the Himalayas; Out of No-man's Land; Under the Minarets; The Nile; Ibex Shooting in the Mountains of Balistan; Neapolitan Sketches; The Japanese Spring; Peeps into Barbary; Behind the Pink Walls of the Forbidden City of Peking; From Home to Throne in Belgium; Nepaul - Land of the Goorkhas; At the Court of the King of Kings; The Sons of the Steppe; Athens; and My Discoveries in Tibet.. First Printing - First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo., Gallery Books - W. H. Smith Publishers, 1991, 3, New York: Gallery Books - W. H. Smith Publishers, 1991. 543 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with line drawings. This collection contains: Street Life in India; From the Hebrid Isles; Days and Nights with a Caravan; Cairo in 1890; The Land of the Midnight Sun; Characteristic Parisian Cafes; In the Garden of China; The West and East Ends of London; The Lords of the Sahara; An Elephant Drive in Siam; Popular Life in Austro-Hungarian Capitals; Wild Mountain Tribes of Borneo; In Folkestone Out of Season; With the Afgan Boundary Commission; The Lotus Land of the Pacific; Spanish Vistas; A Little Journey in Java; York; The Slave Market at Marrakesh; New Zealand; Campaigning with the Cossacks; A New Switzerland; Domestic Court and Customs of Persia; The Arran Islands; A Night's Ride with Arab Bandits; A Quest in the Himalayas; Out of No-man's Land; Under the Minarets; The Nile; Ibex Shooting in the Mountains of Balistan; Neapolitan Sketches; The Japanese Spring; Peeps into Barbary; Behind the Pink Walls of the Forbidden City of Peking; From Home to Throne in Belgium; Nepaul - Land of the Goorkhas; At the Court of the King of Kings; The Sons of the Steppe; Athens; and My Discoveries in Tibet.. First Printing - First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo., Gallery Books - W. H. Smith Publishers, 1991, 3, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Good+/Good only (see notes). 1962. 2nd ptg. hardcover. 8vo . 202pp . Distinct bowing to covers. Spine of DJ almost sunned out, with some 1/4" tears and edgewear. ., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962, 2.5, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1969. Small 8vo, pp 219, a good copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In 1774, his family moved to New York and then to Montreal in 1776 during the American Revolution. In 1779 he worked for Finley and Gregory, a fur trading Company later administered by Normand Macleod. In 1779, Mackenzie obtained a job with the North West Company on whose behalf he traveled to Lake Athabasca and founded Fort Chipewyan in 1788. He was sent to replace Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company. From Pond, he learned that the First Nations people understood that the local rivers flowed to the northwest. Acting on this information, he set out by canoe on the river known to the local Dene First Nations people as the Dehcho, (Mackenzie River) on July 10, 1789 following it to its mouth in the hope of finding the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. As he ended up reaching the Arctic Ocean, it is conjectured that he named the river "Disappointment River" as it did not lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska as he had expected. The river was later renamed the Mackenzie River in his honor. In 1791, he returned to Great Britain to study the new advance in the measurement of longitude. Upon his return in 1792, he set out once again to find a route to the Pacific. Accompanied by native guides, French voyageurs and a dog called "Our Dog", Mackenzie left Fort Fork following the route of the Peace River. He crossed the continental divide and found the upper reaches of the Fraser River but was warned by the local natives that the Fraser Canyon to the south was unnavigable and populated by belligerent tribes. He was instead directed to follow an established trading route by ascending the West Road River, crossing over the Coast Mountains and descending the Bella Coola River to the sea. He followed this advice and reached the Pacific coast on July 20, 1793 at Bella Coola, British Columbia, on North Bentinck Arm, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Thus, he completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico. He had unknowingly missed meeting George Vancouver at Bella Coola by 48 days. He had wanted to continue westward out of a desire to encounter the open ocean but was turned back by the hostility of the Heiltsuk nation. At his westernmost point on Dean Channel, (on July 22, 1793), hemmed in by Heiltsuk war canoes, he inscribed "Alex MacKenzie / from Canada / by land / 22d July 1793" on a rock using a reddish paint made of vermilion and bear grease and turned around to return to "Canada". The rock, near the water's edge in Dean Channel, still bears these words which were permanently inscribed later by surveyors. The site is now Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park. In 1801 the journals of his exploratory journeys were published. He was knighted for his efforts in the following year and served in the Legislature of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808. In 1812, he married and returned to Scotland. Mackenzie died in 1820 of Bright's disease aged 56. He is buried in Avoch, on the Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn., Faber & Faber Ltd, 1969, 3<

1969, ISBN: 0571089593

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[EAN: 9780571089598], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Faber & Faber Ltd, London], EXPLORATION. TRAVEL. AMERICA. AMERICAN. ROCKY M OUNTAINS. ARCTIC CIRCLE. FUR TRADE. NORTH WEST COMPAN… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780571089598], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Faber & Faber Ltd, London], EXPLORATION. TRAVEL. AMERICA. AMERICAN. ROCKY M OUNTAINS. ARCTIC CIRCLE. FUR TRADE. NORTH WEST COMPANY. CANADA. CANADIAN., Jacket, Small 8vo, pp 219, a good copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In 1774, his family moved to New York and then to Montreal in 1776 during the American Revolution. In 1779 he worked for Finley and Gregory, a fur trading Company later administered by Normand Macleod. In 1779, Mackenzie obtained a job with the North West Company on whose behalf he traveled to Lake Athabasca and founded Fort Chipewyan in 1788. He was sent to replace Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company. From Pond, he learned that the First Nations people understood that the local rivers flowed to the northwest. Acting on this information, he set out by canoe on the river known to the local Dene First Nations people as the Dehcho, (Mackenzie River) on July 10, 1789 following it to its mouth in the hope of finding the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. As he ended up reaching the Arctic Ocean, it is conjectured that he named the river "Disappointment River" as it did not lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska as he had expected. The river was later renamed the Mackenzie River in his honor. In 1791, he returned to Great Britain to study the new advance in the measurement of longitude. Upon his return in 1792, he set out once again to find a route to the Pacific. Accompanied by native guides, French voyageurs and a dog called "Our Dog", Mackenzie left Fort Fork following the route of the Peace River. He crossed the continental divide and found the upper reaches of the Fraser River but was warned by the local natives that the Fraser Canyon to the south was unnavigable and populated by belligerent tribes. He was instead directed to follow an established trading route by ascending the West Road River, crossing over the Coast Mountains and descending the Bella Coola River to the sea. He followed this advice and reached the Pacific coast on July 20, 1793 at Bella Coola, British Columbia, on North Bentinck Arm, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Thus, he completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico. He had unknowingly missed meeting George Vancouver at Bella Coola by 48 days. He had wanted to continue westward out of a desire to encounter the open ocean but was turned back by the hostility of the Heiltsuk nation. At his westernmost point on Dean Channel, (on July 22, 1793), hemmed in by Heiltsuk war canoes, he inscribed "Alex MacKenzie / from Canada / by land / 22d July 1793" on a rock using a reddish paint made of vermilion and bear grease and turned around to return to "Canada". The rock, near the water's edge in Dean Channel, still bears these words which were permanently inscribed later by surveyors. The site is now Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park. In 1801 the journals of his exploratory journeys were published. He was knighted for his efforts in the following year and served in the Legislature of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808. In 1812, he married and returned to Scotland. Mackenzie died in 1820 of Bright's disease aged 56. He is buried in Avoch, on the Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty., Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780571089598

A few b&w maps, Douglas & McIntyre, 1997, 3, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1969. Small 8vo, pp 219, a good copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scot… Mehr…

A few b&w maps, Douglas & McIntyre, 1997, 3, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1969. Small 8vo, pp 219, a good copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In 1774, his family moved to New York and then to Montreal in 1776 during the American Revolution. In 1779 he worked for Finley and Gregory, a fur trading Company later administered by Normand Macleod. In 1779, Mackenzie obtained a job with the North West Company on whose behalf he traveled to Lake Athabasca and founded Fort Chipewyan in 1788. He was sent to replace Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company. From Pond, he learned that the First Nations people understood that the local rivers flowed to the northwest. Acting on this information, he set out by canoe on the river known to the local Dene First Nations people as the Dehcho, (Mackenzie River) on July 10, 1789 following it to its mouth in the hope of finding the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. As he ended up reaching the Arctic Ocean, it is conjectured that he named the river "Disappointment River" as it did not lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska as he had expected. The river was later renamed the Mackenzie River in his honor. In 1791, he returned to Great Britain to study the new advance in the measurement of longitude. Upon his return in 1792, he set out once again to find a route to the Pacific. Accompanied by native guides, French voyageurs and a dog called "Our Dog", Mackenzie left Fort Fork following the route of the Peace River. He crossed the continental divide and found the upper reaches of the Fraser River but was warned by the local natives that the Fraser Canyon to the south was unnavigable and populated by belligerent tribes. He was instead directed to follow an established trading route by ascending the West Road River, crossing over the Coast Mountains and descending the Bella Coola River to the sea. He followed this advice and reached the Pacific coast on July 20, 1793 at Bella Coola, British Columbia, on North Bentinck Arm, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Thus, he completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico. He had unknowingly missed meeting George Vancouver at Bella Coola by 48 days. He had wanted to continue westward out of a desire to encounter the open ocean but was turned back by the hostility of the Heiltsuk nation. At his westernmost point on Dean Channel, (on July 22, 1793), hemmed in by Heiltsuk war canoes, he inscribed "Alex MacKenzie / from Canada / by land / 22d July 1793" on a rock using a reddish paint made of vermilion and bear grease and turned around to return to "Canada". The rock, near the water's edge in Dean Channel, still bears these words which were permanently inscribed later by surveyors. The site is now Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park. In 1801 the journals of his exploratory journeys were published. He was knighted for his efforts in the following year and served in the Legislature of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808. In 1812, he married and returned to Scotland. Mackenzie died in 1820 of Bright's disease aged 56. He is buried in Avoch, on the Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn., Faber & Faber Ltd, 1969, 3<

1969, ISBN: 9780571089598

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1969. Small 8vo, pp 219, a good copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on… Mehr…

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1969. Small 8vo, pp 219, a good copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In 1774, his family moved to New York and then to Montreal in 1776 during the American Revolution. In 1779 he worked for Finley and Gregory, a fur trading Company later administered by Normand Macleod. In 1779, Mackenzie obtained a job with the North West Company on whose behalf he traveled to Lake Athabasca and founded Fort Chipewyan in 1788. He was sent to replace Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company. From Pond, he learned that the First Nations people understood that the local rivers flowed to the northwest. Acting on this information, he set out by canoe on the river known to the local Dene First Nations people as the Dehcho, (Mackenzie River) on July 10, 1789 following it to its mouth in the hope of finding the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. As he ended up reaching the Arctic Ocean, it is conjectured that he named the river "Disappointment River" as it did not lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska as he had expected. The river was later renamed the Mackenzie River in his honor. In 1791, he returned to Great Britain to study the new advance in the measurement of longitude. Upon his return in 1792, he set out once again to find a route to the Pacific. Accompanied by native guides, French voyageurs and a dog called "Our Dog", Mackenzie left Fort Fork following the route of the Peace River. He crossed the continental divide and found the upper reaches of the Fraser River but was warned by the local natives that the Fraser Canyon to the south was unnavigable and populated by belligerent tribes. He was instead directed to follow an established trading route by ascending the West Road River, crossing over the Coast Mountains and descending the Bella Coola River to the sea. He followed this advice and reached the Pacific coast on July 20, 1793 at Bella Coola, British Columbia, on North Bentinck Arm, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Thus, he completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico. He had unknowingly missed meeting George Vancouver at Bella Coola by 48 days. He had wanted to continue westward out of a desire to encounter the open ocean but was turned back by the hostility of the Heiltsuk nation. At his westernmost point on Dean Channel, (on July 22, 1793), hemmed in by Heiltsuk war canoes, he inscribed "Alex MacKenzie / from Canada / by land / 22d July 1793" on a rock using a reddish paint made of vermilion and bear grease and turned around to return to "Canada". The rock, near the water's edge in Dean Channel, still bears these words which were permanently inscribed later by surveyors. The site is now Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park. In 1801 the journals of his exploratory journeys were published. He was knighted for his efforts in the following year and served in the Legislature of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808. In 1812, he married and returned to Scotland. Mackenzie died in 1820 of Bright's disease aged 56. He is buried in Avoch, on the Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn., Faber & Faber Ltd, 1969, 3<