Company of Adventurers
- ISBN-10
- 014010139X
- ISBN-13
- 9780140101393
- Series
- Company of Adventurers
- Category
- Fur trade
- Pages
- 565
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Penguin Canada
- Author
- Peter Charles Newman
Description
First volume of a history of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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