Island of the blue foxes : disaster and triumph on Bering's great voyage to Alaska / Stephen R. Brown.
Publication details: New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2017.Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781771621618 (hc.)
- 910/.916451 23
- G700 1733 .B69 2017
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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900 - 999 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | 910.91 BOWN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001097352 |
"A Merloyd Lawrence book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-305) and index.
"The immense eighteenth-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. Led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering, the ten-year voyage, which included scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and, thanks to the brilliant naturalist Georg Steller, discovered dozens of New World plants and animals. The story of the expedition is a tale not only of adventure and historic achievement, but also of shipwreck, endurance, and one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history."--Provided by publisher.
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