Island of the blue foxes: disaster and triumph on the world's greatest scientific expedition
Stephen R. Bown
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue.
Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history."
Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history."
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2017
সংস্করণ:
1
প্রকাশক:
Da Capo Press
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
320
ISBN 10:
0306825201
ISBN 13:
9780306825200
ফাইল:
EPUB, 20.20 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2017
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