Summary of Jack Nisbet's Ancient Places

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#1 David Thompson, a fur trader working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, was witness to a night-traveling meteor that lit up the sky over Lake Susquagemow.

#2 The story of David Thompson, a fur trader working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, tells of a night-traveling meteor that lit up the sky over Lake Susquagemow. Several days later, the fur agent was back near the same marsh on Lake Susquagemow, hunting for game in an open grove of aspen trees. He saw another concentrated light from the lake’s east end, which seemed larger than the first one.

#3 A fur trader named David Thompson was witness to a night-traveling meteor that lit up the sky over Lake Susquagemow. The story of Thompson’s experience was reported by him and others who worked with him, and they believed they heard the aurora.

#4 A NASA astronaut wrote me, asking about a book I wrote about David Thompson, a fur trader who saw a night-traveling meteor over Lake Susquagemow. He explained that the aurora is a plasma phenomenon in which energized electrons collide with gas particles to produce light effects.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350001150

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In November 1792, Hudson’s Bay Company fur agent David Thompson led a crew of hungry men through the wilderness of lakes that extended north and west of their York Factory headquarters on the bay. They had found the fishing and hunting very poor around their isolated trade house.

#2

The fur agent, David Thompson, grew up in London with his Welsh mother, who may have introduced him to the traditional folktale about fairy fire, or will-o’-the-wisps. He saw two glowing orbs over Lake Susquagemow, which some scientists have explained as a chemical phenomenon.

#3

The aurora is a display of sonorous light that many people in the North observed. It was so bright that it could be seen from far away, and it lasted for hours at a time.

#4

John Phillips, an astronaut who had studied the sun and space environment, believed that David Thompson’s aurora experiences around Reindeer Lake were caused by energized electrons colliding with gas particles.

#5

John Phillips, the astronaut, was able to appreciate the poetry of a moment. He had a natural curiosity that helped him thrive on the rigors of NASA’s training regime. In 2002, he was assigned to prepare for a future mission of the International Space Station.

#6

The aurora is most visible near its perimeter. If you are standing near Reindeer Lake and there is an intense episode