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Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay Audiobook

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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/275833 Title: Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay Author: Agnes C. Laut Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs 9 mins Language: English Release date: 2015-01-10 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: History, North America Publisher's Summary: The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed their canoes up the Saskatchewan, crossed the Rocky Mountains, went down the Columbia. Fur, not glory, was the quest when the dog bells went ringing over the wintry wastes from Saskatchewan to Athabaska, across the Barren Lands, and north to the Arctic. Beaver, not empire, was the object in view when the horse brigades of one hundred and two hundred and three hundred hunters, led by Ogden, or Ross, or M'Kay or Ermatinge