Empire of Skin

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ISBN: 9781574230499
Dewey: 811.54
LCC Number: PS3553
Author: Tom Clark
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Pages: 232
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From the moment survivors of Captain Cook’s third voyage of discovery found that sea otter skins procured from the Northwest Coast Indians would bring $100 apiece on the Chinese market| the future of the coast| the Indians| and the sea otters was irrevocably altered. Tom Clark’s serial poetic history of the maritime fur trade (1785-1810) documents and elaborates that change| linking white world fur traders with indigenes in extended metaphors of contact and confrontation.