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Island of the blue foxes : disaster and triumph on the world's greatest scientific expedition

Bown, Stephen R., author

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\"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.\"\"--Jacket.

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Subject: Arctic regions Discovery and exploration Russian. / Kamchatskaëiىa çekspediëtىsiëiىa (2nd : 1733-1744) / Kamchatskaëiىa çekspediëtىsiëiىa / 1700-1799 / Scientific expeditions History 18th century. / Discoveries in geography. / Scientific expeditions Arctic regions History 18th century. / HISTORY Expeditions & Discoveries. / HISTORY Russia & the Former Soviet Union. / NATURE Ecosystems & Habitats Polar Regions. / Discovery and exploration, Russian. / Scientific expeditions. / Alaska Discovery and exploration Russian. / Northwest Coast of North America Discovery and exploration Russian. / Alaska. / Arctic Regions. / North America Northwest Coast of North America.
• ISBN: 9780306825194, 0306825198, 1771621613, 9781771621618

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