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Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson & the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's
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- ISBN
- 0062026658
- EAN
- 9780062026651
- Binding
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- Book Title
- Emperor of the North
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 5.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, General
- Item Weight
- 16.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062026658
ISBN-13
9780062026651
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14038294469
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Book Title
Emperor of the North
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
Item Length
5.6 in
Item Width
8.4 in
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Raffan has made a significant contribution to the ever-evolving saga of 19th-century North America., Raffan handles his history admirably . . . . An unflinching yet sympathetic look at an important nation-builder., Raffan handles his history admirably. . .an unflinching yet sympathetic look at an important nation-builder., "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
Synopsis
The bestseller from James Raffan, Emperor of the North tells the story of Sir George Simpson, whose extraordinary life coincided with the success of one of the greatest commercial empires in history: the Hudson's Bay Company, a vast trading venture that became the world's oldest continuous commercial enterprise., 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., 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 story-frontier entrepreneurs, hardy voyageurs, skilled native trappers, intrepid explorers, impoverished settlers, and lords and ladies of the realm-and 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.
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