8 Bücher ähnlich wie Die Hudson-Bay-Kompagnie
Astoria
In 1811 a group of American traders built a fort at the mouth of the Columbia River, named Fort Astoria in honor of its financier, John Jacob Astor. Envisioned as the spur of a fur-trading empire, by 1813 the project was a business failure and the fort was surrendered to the British. But in its short life Astoria rendered incalculable benefits to public understanding of the Great Northwest. The…
Gemeinsame Themen: Fourrures, Fur trade, Commerce, Description and travel
Wildnis Kanadas
The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on The Backwoods of Canada, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush…
Gemeinsame Themen: Canada, Indians of North America, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel
Frühe Westreisen, 1748–1846
A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel: descriptive of the Indians and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement, Edited with notes, introduction, index, etc. The 32 volumes of reprints include 2 volumes of indexes. Some of the reprints are offered separately on this website, and…
Gemeinsame Themen: Fourrures, Fur trade, Indians of North America, Description and travel
Die Abenteuer des Kapitän Bonneville, U.S.A.
While engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United States, was accustomed to have at his board various persons of adventurous turn, some of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Fur trade, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel
Unser altes Heim
Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.”
Gemeinsame Themen: Homes and haunts, Description and travel, Travel, History
Kalifornien und der Oregon-Trail
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
Gemeinsame Themen: Indians of North America, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel
Von Meer zu Meer: Reisebriefe
Galley proofs, corrected in Kipling's hand, in preparation for the 1899 ed. of "From sea to sea." Only "Letters from Marque" was retained in the published version. The other parts were not published in book form until 1920, when they were included in "Letters of travel: 1892-1913."
Gemeinsame Themen: Canada, Description and travel, Travel
Bummel durch den Wilden Westen
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as "Mark Twain," left Missouri in 1861 to work with his brother, the newly appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Once settled in Nevada, Clemens fell victim to gold fever and went to the Humboldt mines. When prospecting lost its attractions, Clemens found work as a reporter in Virginia City. In 1864, Clemens moved to California and worked…
Gemeinsame Themen: Homes and haunts, Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir