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  • The Company

    The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

    de Stephen Bown ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling.The Company started out small in 1670, trading ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Dominion

    The Railway and the Rise of Canada

    de Stephen Bown ...
    A thrilling new account of the engineering triumph that created a nationIn The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen R. Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.In the late ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Audiolibro

    Dominion

    The Railway and the Rise of Canada

    de Stephen Bown ...
    Narrado por Wayne Ward ...

    Completo

    12 hora 4 minutos

    A thrilling new account of the engineering triumph that created a nationIn The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen R. Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.In the late ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Madness, Betrayal and the Lash

    The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

    de Stephen R. Bown ...
    Narrado por Joe Barrett ...

    Completo

    9 hora 8 minutos

    From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history's greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his marine survey of Hawaii and the Pacific coast was at its ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Last Viking

    The Life of Roald Amundsen

    de Stephen R. Bown ...
    The authoritative biography of the famous Norwegian polar explorer: "A fascinating account of a complex and driven man" ( Burnaby Now).The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Merchant Kings

    When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900

    de Stephen R. Bown ...
    Narrado por Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Completo

    9 hora 52 minutos

    It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people.The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • White Eskimo

    Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic

    de Stephen R. Bown ...
    Series series Merloyd Lawrence Novels
    Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made a courageous three-year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska to reveal the common origins of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Scurvy

    How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

    de Stephen J. Bown ...
    This lively history of the dreaded disease "weav[es] a tale of medical discovery into a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas" ( The Toronto Star).Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all naval combat combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Forgotten Highways

    Wilderness Journeys Down the Historic Trails of the Canadian Rockies

    de Nicky L. Brink, Stephen R. Bown ...
    Traversing the historic trails of the Rockies today is done in much the same manner as it was two centuries ago—primarily on foot with heavy packs, with little better defence against mosquitoes or the elements. Although accurate maps are available, and modern technology such as global positioning systems stand as a bulwark to a complete wilderness experience, in many cases it is as difficult and ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Company

    The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire

    de Stephen R. Bown ...
    Narrado por Traber Burns ...

    Completo

    16 hora 5 minutos

    A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s originsThe story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book for over thirty years and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown’s exciting new telling.The company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Island of the Blue Foxes

    Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition

    de Stephen R. Bown ...
    Series series Merloyd Lawrence Novels
    The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully toldThe immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Merchant Kings

    When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900

    de Stephen R. Bown ...
    Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro