Stephen R. Bown Audio Books

A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation.

From the 15th to the mid-19th centuries, scurvy caused more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat, and all other diseases combined. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of military successes, yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored.

The story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told.

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world.

It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions.