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“Raffan has made a significant contribution to the ever-evolving saga of 19th-century North America.” (The Globe and Mail)
“Raffan handles his history admirably. . .an unflinching yet sympathetic look at an important nation-builder.” (The Walrus)
With this book, James Raffan joins the ranks of Pierre Berton and Peter C. Newman. (Farley Mowat)
Raffan has spun the fetid straw of [George Simpson’s] life into a golden book. (Ken McGoogan)
A significant contribution to the ever-evolving saga of nineteenth-century North America. (Globe and Mail (Toronto))
Raffan handles his history admirably . . . . An unflinching yet sympathetic look at an important nation-builder. (The Walrus)
A balanced, well-documented, yet engaging and colourful story. (The Beaver)
. . . A wonderful read to be treasured . . . one of those rare books you don’t want to finish. (Peter C. Newman, The Literary Review of Canada)
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“Raffan handles his history admirably. . .an unflinching yet sympathetic look at an important nation-builder.” (The Walrus)
With this book, James Raffan joins the ranks of Pierre Berton and Peter C. Newman. (Farley Mowat)
Raffan has spun the fetid straw of [George Simpson’s] life into a golden book. (Ken McGoogan)
A significant contribution to the ever-evolving saga of nineteenth-century North America. (Globe and Mail (Toronto))
Raffan handles his history admirably . . . . An unflinching yet sympathetic look at an important nation-builder. (The Walrus)
A balanced, well-documented, yet engaging and colourful story. (The Beaver)
. . . A wonderful read to be treasured . . . one of those rare books you don’t want to finish. (Peter C. Newman, The Literary Review of Canada)
James Raffan is one of our foremost authorities on the North, the wilderness and the canoeing tradition. He is the author of Fire in the Bones, the acclaimed bestselling biography of Bill Mason; Bark, Skin and Cedar: Exploring the Canoe in Canadian Experience; and Deep Waters. He is also the editor of Rendezvous with the Wild: The Boreal Forest and The Lure of Faraway Places. Raffan is a fellow and former governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and has served as chair of the Arctic Institute of North America. A recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, he is the curator of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough. He lives in Seeley's Bay, Ontario.
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- EditoreHarperCollins Publishers
- Data di pubblicazione2008
- ISBN 10 0006394876
- ISBN 13 9780006394877
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine496
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Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson & the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: New. Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. Codice articolo 9780006394877B
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Descrizione libro Soft cover. Condizione: New. French Flaps-" The histories of Sir George Simpson and the Hudson's Bay Company are inextricably intertwined, for Simpson's business acumen and go-ahead personality would take a failing fur trading business to a position of great wealth and political power. Controlling a vast trading territory that stretched over 1/12 the world's surface, The HBC became the most significant business in 18th and 19th century Canada and shaped the nation. As its head, Sir George Simpson epitomized the self-made man of Victorian times. Raffan has captured the many contradictions of this larger-than-life figure: his shame at his illegitimate birth, yet his fathering of at least 13 children out of wedlock; his love of grandiosity, yet his ability to rough it with the voyageurs. As he ranged fearlessly across his "empire of furs," spurring his employees to even greater profits, Simpson set speed and endurance records for overland travel that have yet to be beaten. Under his ruthless, inventive and far-seeing management, the HBC became one of the greatest business empires ever and contributed to the concept of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea. In many respects, Simpson was a "father of Confederation" ahead of his time. From the Back Cover: 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 storyfrontier entrepreneurs, hardy voyageurs, skilled native trappers, intrepid explorers, impoverished settlers, and lords and ladies of the realmand 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.". Codice articolo 016647
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Book is in NEW condition. 1.06. Codice articolo 0006394876-2-1
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