The World In His Arms

Peck is captain of a vessel that illegally hunts seals. He returns to San Francisco's Barbary Coast after a good voyage and checks into a hotel with his crew. Blyth, a Russian countess, is also a guest there with her coterie of servants. She is fleeing an arranged marriage with Esmond, a Czarist peer, and thinks she can find safety in Sitka, Alaska, under the aegis of her uncle, Rumann, who is the governor general of the area. She approaches Quinn, a Portuguese seal hunter and Peck's rival, and says she'll pay well to be taken north, but Quinn can't raise...