The Northwest Coast : British navigation, trade, and discoveries to 1812 /
"The Northwest Coast was irrevocably changed the day that Captain James Cook sailed into Nootka Sound in 1778. Cook's discovery of the sea otter population along the coast initiated the maritime fur trade, which in turn led to feverish competition among several nations, especially Britain,...
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
c1992.
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| Series: | Pacific maritime studies series ;
9. |
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