The Profit Web: the Pacific World from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush
About This Novel
Historian David Eagleler starts with the expansion of Pacific trade and vividly demonstrates how navigators, traders, trappers, and indigenous peoples intertwined their destinies in a stormy ocean world, including many violent and tragic events. Eaglel describes in depth how indigenous peoples struggled under the ravages of foreign plagues, how the ordeal of the Russian Timofey Tarakanov typified the widespread practice of taking hostages and captives, how Mary Brewster witnessed the bloody "Great Hunt" of seals, fur seals, and whales, and how James Dwight Dana became a figure as equal to Charles Darwin in his pursuit of knowledge. These wonderful stories and the historical themes they construct together provide people with a new perspective on the Pacific world. This book has a broad vision and grand structure, and pioneeringly depicts the Pacific world. It is a work that integrates American history, maritime history and world history.
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