Captain Simon Metcalfe
Subtitle: pioneer fur trader in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, and China, 1787-1794
By: by Rhys Richards ; edited by R.A. Pierce.
Contributors: Pierce, Richard A. 1918-
Series: Alaska history ;; no. 37
Publisher: Limestone Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Kingston, Ont; Fairbanks, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Metcalfe, Simon, d. 1794.; Metcalfe, Simon, m. 1794.; Fur traders -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography.; Fur traders -- Hawaii -- Biography.; Fur traders -- China -- Biography.; Coureurs de bois -- Oregon (Région) -- Biographies.; Coureurs de bois -- États-Unis (Nord-Ouest) -- Biographies.; Coureurs de bois -- Canada (Sud-Ouest) -- Biographies.; Coureurs de bois -- Hawaii -- Biographies.; Coureurs de bois -- Chine -- Biographies.; Northwest, Pacific -- History.; Hawaii -- History -- To 1893.
Description: Biography of Simon Metcalfe (d. 1794) an American sea captain who was the first to hunt sea otters on the Northwest Coast between Alaska and California and to hunt seals on Kerguelen Island in the Antarctic, as well as one of the first to trade between Hawaii and China.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index.
Map on lining papers.