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1 online resource (xi, 327 pages) : illustrations |
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The edge of the world -- Part one. Europe -- The great embassy -- The first Kamchatka expedition -- The best-laid plans -- Part two. Asia -- St. Petersburg to Siberia -- Quarreling factions -- Phantom islands -- Part three. America -- Bolshaya Zemlya, the great land -- Curious encounters -- The scourge of the sea -- Part four. Nowhere -- Island of the blue foxes -- Death and playing cards -- A new St. Peter -- Russian America. |
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The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told 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." |
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"A Merloyd Lawrence book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Kamchatskai︠a︡ kspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡ (2nd : 1733-1744)
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Kamchatskai︠a︡ kspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡ (2nd : 1733-1744)
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Scientific expeditions -- History -- 18th century.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions -- 18th century.
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian.
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Alaska -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian.
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Northwest Coast of North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian.
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Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions -- History -- 18th century.
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Bown, Stephen R. Island of the blue foxes New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2017 9780306825194 (NjBwBT)bl2017046753 (OCoLC)975484931 |
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9780306825200 |
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0306825201 |
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