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"An unflinching yet sympathetic look at an important nation-builder." -- The Walrus
"Raffan has made a significant contribution to the ever-evolving saga of 19th-century North America." -- THE GLOBE AND MAIL
"Raffan has made a significant contribution to the ever-evolving saga of 19th-century North America." -- THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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At the height of its power in the 19th century, the Hudson's Bay Company's trading territory covered onetwelfth of the world's land surface, with one man at the top of this vast empire of wealth and power: Sir George Simpson. A master businessman, Simpson was as comfortable in a canoe as he was behind a desk--maybe even more so. He was famous in trading posts across the Bay's vast territory for making unexpected long-distance treks to check on the company holdings. In Emperor of the North, James Raffan captures the many contradictions of this larger-than-life man who kept an iron grip on his forts, ensuring British power across the land. As Raffan shows, Simpson was at the centre of far more than a fur-trading company. His management and his travels united a vast and diverse land, launching an empire of ideas that would lead to the creation of a country.
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important and yet unknown,
Ce commentaire est de: Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson & the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company (Paperback)
George Simpson's travels on this continent outdid even Lewis and Clark in many ways and yet the tale is practically a footnote in North American history. It is an important and epic story well told.
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James Raffin's Emperor of the North,
By Bob Edwards "The Calgary Eye Opener" - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Emperor Of The North (Paperback)
Without Sir George Simpson, for better or for worse, Western Canada would not exist. A fiesty little illegitimate Scot, aged 28, who the Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company plucked, from outside the fur trade and the company, from a London counting house and sent to take over the company's operations, sight unseen. For 40 years, mainly by commanding brigades of 36 foot canoes d'maitre with manic intensity, he expanded (onto the Pacific Coast) and preserved the company, circumnavigated the globe through Russia, sired a score of children throughout his domain and behaved as most great men, given great power, behave. Raffan tells a story impossible to put down, loves the north and loves the canoe.
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