 | Feeding the Russian Fur Trade James R. Gibson offers a detailed study that is both an account of this chapter of Russian history and a full examination of the changing geography of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula over the course of two centuries. James R. Gibson is professor emeritus of geography at York University. He is author of Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841 and The Lifeline of the Oregon Country: The Fraser-Columbia Brigade System, 1811-47 . |
