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Feeding the Russian Fur Trade: Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639–1856

by James R. Gibson

University of Wisconsin Press, 1969
eISBN: 978-0-299-05233-1 | Paper: 978-0-299-05234-8 | Cloth: 978-0-299-05230-0
Library of Congress Classification HD9015.R93O54
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.19577

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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.

REVIEWS

“Fascinating account of the interaction of man and nature in the Russian Far East. . . . It deserves a place in the collection of every university and research library.”—Choice

“With meticulous scholarship, he has assembled scant and scattered bits of information on land and water transport, crop yields, milk production in Kamchatka, prices of vodka and other comestibles, weather, and population into a clear, well-told account of the great problem underlying all activity in the region, that of supply.”—Canadian Slavonic Papers

“[Gibson] brings together in one volume a rich source of geographical and historical facts pertaining to the attempts at development and the provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula.”—Andrew D. Perejda, The Professional Geographer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I. Perspective and Context

1 Historical Background: Occupation and Exploitation of the Russian Far East

2 Geographical Background: Physical and Cultural Setting of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula

3 The Problem of Provisionment

PART II. Overland-Oversea Provisionment

4 Introduction

5 Routes and Carriers

6 Performance

7 Transport Problems

8 Reactions

PART III. Local Agriculture

9 Introduction

10 Agricultural Settlement

11 Production

12 Agricultural Problems

13 Reactions

PART IV. Retrospect

14 Summary and Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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