Author: Peter Charles NewmanPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670840984
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
About the Canadian Hudson's Bay Company.
Merchant Princes
Author: Peter Charles NewmanPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670840984
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
About the Canadian Hudson's Bay Company.
Company of Adventurers
Author: Peter C. NewmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780143051473
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history.
The Company of Adventurers
Author: Isaac CowiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Company of Adventurers
Author: Isaac CowiePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803263505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York Factory, where he awaited his assignment. Company of Adventurers describes the early, lusty history of the HBC and the years of Cowie's service, when manufactured goods were driving out the demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains rare information about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians during the period before their confinement to reservations. Alive to the historical and ethnographic value of his writing, Cowie tells about his tenure as a clerk (later manager) at Fort Qu'Appelle in southern Saskatchewan, the colorful personalities who served with him, the wide-ranging fur brigades, remote outposts, and the Company's relations with Indian tribes. He was the first white man known to have set foot within the Swift Current District when in 1868 he hunted buffalo there. His dealings with the Mätis during the Red River Rebellion placed him where history was being made. In an introduction to this Bison Book edition, David Reed Miller discusses how Cowie fitted into a great commercial enterprise and how he became a victim of unpleasant circumstances that forced his retirement in 1891.
Empire of the Bay
Author: Peter Charles NewmanPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
This sweeping volume of the Hudson's Bay Company--consisting of Peter C. Newman's "Company of Adventurers" and "Caesars of the Wilderness"--is also the subject of a PBS documentary, "Empire of the Bay", airing in August. It tells of an empire that covered one-twelfth of the Earth's surface and shaped the destiny of a continent.
The Adventurer's Son
Author: Roman DialPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062876627
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." —Anchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post), The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial’s extraordinary and widely acclaimed account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son’s disappearance in the jungles of Costa Rica. In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left, Cody Roman Dial emailed his father: “I am not sure how long it will take me, but I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I’ll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever.” They were the last words Dial received from his son. As soon as he realized Cody Roman’s return date had passed, Dial set off for Costa Rica. As he trekked through the dense jungle, interviewing locals and searching for clues—the authorities suspected murder—the desperate father was forced to confront the deepest questions about himself and his own role in the events. Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to be at home in earth’s wildest places, travelling together through rugged Alaska to remote Borneo and Bhutan. Was he responsible for his son’s fate? Or, as he hoped, was Cody Roman safe and using his wilderness skills on a solo adventure from which he would emerge at any moment? Part detective story set in the most beautiful yet dangerous reaches of the planet, The Adventurer’s Son emerges as a far deeper tale of discovery—a journey to understand the truth about those we love the most. The Adventurer’s Son includes fifty black-and-white photographs.
The Horn of Moran
Author: Mark FormanPublisher: Adventurers Wanted
ISBN: 9781609089115
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old wizard-in-training Alex Taylor and his band of fellow adventurers battle a goblin army, navigate an enchanted forest, and try to solve the sphinx's riddle in their quest to find the lost Horn of Moran and return it to Alusia before the nation erupts in war.
Slathbog's Gold
Author: Mark FormanPublisher: Adventurer's Wanted
ISBN: 9781606416815
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Original publication and copyright date: 2009.
Company of Adventurers: without special title
Author: Peter Charles NewmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fur trade
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Caesars of Wilderness
Author: Peter C. NewmanPublisher: Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
ISBN: 9780140086300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description