About the Author

J.M. Bumsted is the author of many books on Canadian history, including The People's Clearance, The Fur Trade Wars, The Red River Rebellion, Reporting the Resistance, and the widely used textbook, A History of the Canadian Peoples.

Reviews

“This is the work of a scholar at the top of his game. There is not going to be a better biography of Selkirk in a very long time.”“Probably the best biography of this complex, compartmentalized man that we are going to get, and that is no small achievement.”