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9780140299878
This sweeping volume of the Hudson's Bay Company--consisting of Peter C. Newman's "Company of Adventurers" and "Caesars of the Wilderness"--is also the subject of a PBS documentary, "Empire of the Bay", airing in August. It tells of an empire that covered one-twelfth of the Earth's surface and shaped the destiny of a continent.Newman, Peter C. is the author of 'Empire of the Bay The Company of Adventurers That Seized a Continent', published 2000 under ISBN 9780140299878 and ISBN 0140299874.
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