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While previous studies have concentrated on the boom years of the fur trade before the War of 1812, James Gibson reveals how the maritime fur trade persisted into the 1840s. He explores Russian, British, Spanish, and American participation in the Northwest traffic, and describes the market in South China, outlining the evolution of the coast trade.

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James Gibson's thoroughly researched and highly detailed study is the first comprehensive account of the maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast of North America.

In The Lifeline of the Oregon Country, James Gibson compellingly immerses the reader in one of the most intractable problems faced by the Hudson¿s Bay Company: how to realize wealth from such a remote and formidable land.

Offers a detailed study that is both an account of this chapter of Russian history and a full examination of the changing geography of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula over the course of two centuries.

James R. Gibson is a historical geographer at York University. He is the author of the award-winning Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast 1785-1841 (1992), as well as of Imperial Russia in Frontier America: The Changing Geography of Supply of Russian America 1784-1867 (1978), and Farming the Frontier: The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country 1786-1846 (1984).

The first comprehensive account of the maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast of North America

Herausgegeben von Jürgen F. Boden und Günter Myrell, ist dieses Buch in Grossformat das spektakuläre Standardwerk über die gesamte Arktis: Grönland, Nordkanada, Alaska, Nordeuropa und Sibirien. Mit spannenden und informativen Beiträgen international renommierter Historiker und Ethnologen, und reich bebildert mit über 250 Farbfotos grosser Fotografen aus Deutschland, Skandinavien, Grönland, Kanada, USA und Sibirien und mit 120 historischen Abbi...