Empire of the Bay: The Company of Adventurers That Seized a Continent
by Newman, Peter C.

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Empire of the Bay: The Company of Adventurers That Seized a Continent: There has never been a business enterprise like it: at its height, the Hudson's Bay Company's territory covered one-twelfth of the earth's surface and was ten times the size of the Holy Roman Empire. Its domain stretched from London across Canada, down to San Francisco, and across the Pacific to Hawaii. Its founders tamed a wilderness, and, in building the world's largest private commercial empire, they shaped the destiny of a continent.

This sweeping volume, consisting of Peter C. Newman's Company of Adventures and Caesars of the Wilderness, chronicles the epic adventures of eccentric knights, unscrupulous financiers, and shrewd Scottish traders who knew “only two powers – God and the Company.” (John Rowand, chief factor, Hudson's Bay Company)

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ISBN-10:	0140299874
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780140299878
Author:	Newman, Peter C.
Publisher:	Penguin USA New York
Publication Date:	8/2000
Pages:	612 pages
Size/Dimensions:	1.5 x 5.75 x 8.5 inches
Binding:	Paperback