The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2David Thompsons Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America. The second in a planned three volumes of Thompsons writings, this edition completes the great surveyor and fur traders spirited autobiographical narrative. In the 1848 Travels, Thompson describes his most