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Article: Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company.(Book review)
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EMPEROR OF THE NORTH: SIR GEORGE SIMPSON AND THE REMARKABLE STORY OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. By JAMES RAFFAN. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. ISBN 9780002007832. x + 484 p., maps, b & w illus., appendices, notes, bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$34.95.
Sixty-five years ago, the great American historian Samuel Eliot Morison, in his fine biography of Christopher Columbus, made a perceptive comment about historians who write biographies of explorers. He wrote (1942:xv): "This book arose out of a desire to know exactly where Columbus sailed on his Four Voyages, and what sort of a seaman he was. No previous work on the Discoverer of America answers these ...