Sea Otters by Richard Ravalli - 9781496225009

Sea OttersA History\nAuthor(s): Richard Ravalli\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496225009, 978-1496225009\nSynopsis\nAChoice Outstanding Academic Title\n\n More than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the worlds largest oceanscape before the California gold rush. In addition to the more conventional aspects of the sea otter trade, including Russian expansion in Alaska, British and American trading in the Pacific Northwest, and Spanish colonial ventures along the California coast, the global importance of the species can be seen in its impact on the East Asian maritime fur trade. This trade linked imperial China, Japan, and indigenous Ainu peoples of the Kurile Islands as early as the fifteenth century.\n\n In Sea Otters: A History Richard Ravalli synthesizes anew the sea otters complex history of interaction with humans by drawing on new histories of the species .