Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841
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Using a diverse range of sources, including Russian repositories and the logs and records of American ships, this text provides a comprehensive history of the maritime fur trade. The book treats all... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:029597169X
ISBN13:9780295971698
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:435 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Good coverage of interesting topic
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Too much has been made of Lewis & Clark. The real exploration of America's West Coast and the real contribution to American culture was that of a select group of Boston traders who departed poor their New England homes, turned round the Cape, and up to the Pacific Northwest, there trading iron and wool for otter skins, the most dense and precious of all mammal pelts and one of two items alone that the Chinese would deign to purchase from Americans.Gibson tells the stories of these men, the men who established profitable trade for America, who brought hard currency into a broken economy, who set the stage for the American heritage of exploration cum capitalism that we see today in Silicon Valley.I don't believe it is a coincidence that the shares held by the investors (half), captain (tenth), supercargo (seven percent), and crew (33 percent, total) mirrors that of technology companies today.
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