18 books like The fur trade in Canada

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Sarah Canary Karen Joy Fowler · 1991 · ★ 3.6 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has… Shares: Northwest, History

The empire of business Andrew Carnegie · 1902 · ★ 4.5 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Challenging | caption = Title page for The Empire of Business (1902) Shares: Conditions économiques, Economic conditions, Business

Doing Business in China Tim Ambler · 2000 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Moderate China may soon be the biggest economy in the world. This book is a practical guide to business practices, market conditions, negotiations, organisations, networks and the business environment in China. Aimed specifically at Western and non-Chinese businesses and managers, this book offers a general framework for understanding Chinese business culture along with a guide for acquiring further… Shares: Conditions économiques, Economic conditions, Business

Business--a profession Louis Dembitz Brandeis · 1914 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In the competitive business world today, organizations are compelled to continually evolve and modernize to stay ahead. Proper team management and planning are two of the most critical determinants of business success. Expert services like https://perspectiveteam.com/services provide innovative solutions to optimize business performance and overall efficacy. Through leveraging the expertise,… Shares: Economic conditions, Business

The Hudson Bay Company Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1848 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The author's first-hand account of the first 3 or 4 years of his career with the Hudson's Bay Company during the early part of the 1800's. Includes personal narratives of his day-to-day adventures, duties to "the Company", personal trials and tribulations in the far north country of Canada, trips and expeditions, and several accounts of his hunting and fishing excursions - all before the age of… Shares: Fur trade, Canada, History

Women and economics Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898 · ★ 3.6 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her… Shares: Conditions économiques, Economic conditions, History

Advance Australasia Frank Thomas Bullen · 1907 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Economic conditions, Business

Marshall Field's Gayle Soucek · 2010 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 155 p. : 23 cm Shares: Economic conditions, History

Coach Art Williams · 2006 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Now, for the first time, the complete story of A.L. Williams, told by the Coach himself! Art Williams shares the inspirational story of what it took to build a tiny "peanut" of a company into an industry giant. Full of heroes and villains, amazing victories and dashing defeats, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamed of building a team, of winning big, of doing what others said… Shares: Histoire, History

A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf · 1929 · ★ 4.2 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the… Shares: Economic conditions, Histoire, History

Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, dix ans plus tard Alexandre Dumas · 1848 · ★ 4.0 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Challenging In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon… Shares: Histoire, History

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies ...: In Two Volumes Bryan Edwards · 1789 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Demanding The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. Shares: Economic conditions, Histoire, History

Autobiography Andrew Carnegie · 1920 · ★ 3.5 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Challenging “This story of the great financier’s childhood in Scotland and his early years and final success in America is a revelation of his geniality, indomitable cheerfulness, canny common sense, and idealism.” — A.L.A. Catalog 1926 “Interesting as a frank and sincere recital of the early struggles and later successes of the well-known millionaire. Contains reminiscences of several noted persons,… Shares: Economic conditions, Business

The adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A. Washington Irving · 1800 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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… Shares: Fur trade, History

The Stone Diaries Carol Shields · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 361p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world, she listens and observes, becoming a witness to her own life and death in this rich tale that reflects and illuminates our own unsettled era. ~from the back cover Shares: Canada, Histoire

The Master Switch Tim Wu · 2010 · ★ 4.1 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In this age of an open internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial… Shares: Histoire, Business, History

Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard Zenas Leonard · 1839 · ★ 3.0 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Zenas Leonard left his parents’ home in Pennsylvania in the early 1830’s to seek his fortune in the West. They did not hear from him for more than five years, and he was presumed dead. Then one day he showed up at their door, fresh from the Rocky Mountains. Everyone was eager to hear his story, so he wrote it down, first publishing part of it in a local newspaper, and later the entire account as… Shares: Fur trade, History

Journey to the shores of the Polar sea, in 1819-20-21-22 John Franklin · 1823 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Sir John Franklin's Narrative of the Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822 recounts a hair-raising adventure of the "Golden Age of Discovery", the period from 1800 to 1847 when sailing ships from around the world feverishly searched for a Northwest Passage through the Arctic. Franklin entered the Royal Navy at the age of 14, went on his first exploratory voyage to… Shares: Northwest, History

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