Don Macgillivray

Captain Alex MacLean

Jack London's Sea Wolf

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Produktbeschreibung

Sealing wars and maritime history are brought into focus in this vivid account of the life of the Alex MacLean, the inspiration for Jack London's Sea-Wolf.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780774814720
• ISBN-10: 0774814721
• Artikelnr.: 25693894

Autorenporträt

Don MacGillivray is a professor of history at Cape Breton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Cape Breton and Going Down to the Sea, 1858-82
2 Pelagic Sealing: Victoria, 1883-87
3 Conflict in the North Pacific, 1888-89
4 Home Port San Francisco, 1890
5 The James Hamilton Lewis and the Russians, 1891
6 The Japanese Coast and the North Pacific, 1892-95
7 The Bering Sea Claims Commission Hearings and Percy Sherwood, 1896
8 The South Pacific Expedition, 1897-98
9 The Klondike, 1898-1903
10 Poaching with the Carmencita, 1904-05
11 The Carmencita Returns to Victoria, 1905
12 Setting the Record Straight: Vancouver, 1906-08
13 The Final Years: Vancouver, 1909-14
14 The Legend of Alex MacLean
Notes
Bibliography
Index