Biography & Autobiography Historical
Battling the Bay
- Publisher
- Lone Pine Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jul 1992
- Category
- Historical
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919433960
- Publish Date
- Jul 1992
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
History comes alive in the gripping biography of fur trader Ed Nagle. Jordan Zinovich has unearthed a fascinating, unsung Canadian hero.
About the author
Jordan Zinovich was born and raised in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. He left Canada in 1974, and since then has lived in Crete, England, France, Guinea Conakry, Holland, India, Spain, and New York City, where he now resides. He has published six books: Two historical biographies about personalities involved in the opening of the western Canadian north — The Prospector: North of Sixty and Battling the Bay; the critical anthology Semiotext(e) CANADAs (of which he was Project General Editor); the novel Gabriel Dumont in Paris; Cobweb Walking, a collection of poetry; and the poetic radio play John Chapman’s Harvest. His work has been translated into French and Dutch, with radio performances in New York and Amsterdam. At present he is a senior editor with the Autonomedia Collective, one of North America’s most notable underground publishing houses.