Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

History

Stephen R. Bown

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Thomas Dunne Books

A Most Damnable Invention - Dynamites Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World

Penguin??Books

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen

World

Da Capo Press

A Most Damnable Invention - Dynamites Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen R. Bown (2005) Paperback

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

st.martins press

1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half

Europe

Review\n"Absorbing and nuanced...What distinguishes The Company's popular history is Bown's highlighting of those dynamic Indigenous polities and, as far as the historical records allow, some key individuals within them." -- "Maclean's (Toronto)"\n"Tells the story of the Hudson's Bay Company with verve and an astringent, contemporary slant...The Company is compelling, both as a lively narrative about a corporation that helped shape North American development and as a thoughtful exploration of the complex indigenous cultures that once dominated the continent."-- "Wall Street Journal"\nA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada\x27s origins<\/b><\/p> 
The story of the Hudson\x27s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada\x27s creation. And yet it hasn\x27t been told in a book for over thirty years and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown\x27s exciting new telling.<\/p> 
The company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people\-\-from the Lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the Tundra, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America.<\/p> 
When the company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson\-\-one of the greatest villains in Canadian history\-\-and the company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson\x27s Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world.<\/p> 
Stephen R. Bown has a scholar\x27s profound knowledge and understanding of the Hudson\x27s Bay Company\x27s history but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling and rich in well\-drawn characters as a page\-turning novel.<\/p>

The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

Business & Money

Biography & History

Blackstone Publishing

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Last Viking, The: The Life of Roald Amundsen

Douglas & McIntyre, Limited

The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history. Lasting nearly ten years and spanning three continents, its geographical, cartographical and natural history accomplishments are on par with James Cook's famous voyages, the scientific circumnavigations of Alessandro Malaspina and Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lewis and Clark's cross-continental trek. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men, including the German naturalist and surgeon Georg Steller. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. Island of the Blue Foxes is an incredible true-life adventure story, a story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity.

Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on Bering's Great Voyage to Alaska

Russia

Douglas&McIntyre

In the days of tall ships, one dreaded foe was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses combined: Scurvy. Countless mariners suffered an agonizing death, which began with bleeding gums, wobbly teeth, and the opening of old wounds. Surgeon James Lind, Captain James Cook and physician Sir Gilbert Blane undertook to solve the riddle of Scurvy. Their achievements heralded a new age and cracked the greatest medical mystery of the Age of Sail.

Scurvy : How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

Military

VIKING

An engaging blend of biography and economic/colonial history, Merchant Kings tells the story of the trading companies that monopolised vast territories all over the world during the first great period of globalisation. The leaders of these trading companies exercised dictatorial power over millions of people, and devoted their time and resources to the accumulation of wealth through hunting, trapping, trade and exploration. It was a harsh existence on the frontiers of the civilised world, and these kings of commerce were larger-than-life characters; adventurers as well as merchants. They included men like Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company; Cecil Rhodes, founder of the De Beers company (and after whom Rhodesia was named); and George Simpson, the infamous 'Little Emperor' of the Hudson's Bay Company, who was chauffeured around his vast fur domain in a giant canoe, exhorting his oarsmen to paddle harder in order to set canoeing speed records. Merchant Kings examines their rise and fall in the centuries before colonialism and empire, analysing the political, social and cultural legacies of this fascinating, cut-throat age.

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled The World, 1600-1900

Conway

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