Feeding the Russian Fur Trade: Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639-1856
by Gibson, James R
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About This Item
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. "The critical problem arising from Russian expansion across Asia was that of supplying the outermost reaches with food. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the search for sables drew Russian trappers and traders ever eastward - to reach the Pacific Ocean in 1639; as they exhausted the sources of sables they turned in the eighteenth century to seeking the sea otters of the Pacific and Alaska. Where fur traders had led the way, others followed: officials, soldiers, merchants, and convict and serf laborers. Settlements grew up on the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, lands 7,000 to 8,000 miles from St. Petersburg." - from the jacket.
Synopsis
From the publisher: "Historians and geographers will welcome James R. Gibson's detailed study, which offers both a close account of this chapter of Russian history and a full examination of the changing geography of the Okhotsk Seaboard and Kamchatka Peninsula during this 217-year period."
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- Bookseller
- Tschanz Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3756
- Title
- Feeding the Russian Fur Trade: Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639-1856
- Author
- Gibson, James R
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Place of Publication
- Madison
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Russia Fur Trade Mountain Man Alaska
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