Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson & the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company Tapa blanda - 2010
de James Raffan
Descripción de contraportada
At its height in the nineteenth century, the Hudson's Bay Company's trading territory covered three million square miles and spanned the continent. And no one person was more responsible for its success than its larger-than-life governor, the remarkable George Simpson. The illegitimate son of a ne'er-do-well Scottish lawyer, Simpson was a master planner who laid the foundations for the greatest business enterprise of its day, a pompous dandy who was most at home in a canoe, and a man who, while ashamed of his out-of-wedlock birth, sired at least thirteen children with eight different women.
A wide cast of characters strides through the pages of this gripping story--frontier entrepreneurs, hardy voyageurs, skilled native trappers, intrepid explorers, impoverished settlers, and lords and ladies of the realm--and George Simpson was at home with all of them. The history of the Bay is that of a country in the making, but it is also a history of the clash between different ways of life in a vast, sparsely populated land far from the crowded cities, counting-houses and imperial ambitions of the British Empire.
Detalles
- Título Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson & the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
- Autor James Raffan
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 496
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Harper
- Fecha de publicación 2010-09-14
- Features Bibliography, Deckle Edges, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780062026651 / 0062026658
- Peso 1.05 libras (0.48 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.7 pulgadas (21.08 x 13.72 x 4.32 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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