Download or read book Island of the Blue Foxes written by Stephen R. Bown and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and in Kamtschatka written by Leonhard Stejneger and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been divided into three parts: (1) a review of the species of birds collected or observed on the Commander Islands and at Petropaulski, Kamtschatka ; (2) a synopsis of the birds reported to inhabit Kamtschatka, and (3) conclusions.
Download or read book Bering s Voyages Steller s journal of the sea voyage from Kamchatka to America and return on the second expedition 1741 1742 translated and in part annotated by Leonhard Stejneger written by Frank Alfred Golder and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the logs and journals. Includes a chart of the voyage of Bering and Chirikov in the St. Peter and the St. Paul from Kamchatka to the Alaska coast and return, 1741, based on the log books and other original records and adjusted to known physical conditions by Ellsworth P. Bertholf (v.1).
Download or read book Additional Notes on the Plants of the Commander Islands written by Leonhard Hess Stejneger and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vitus Bering the Discoverer of Bering Strait written by Peter Lauridsen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of the great geographic discoveries, the greatest countries of the world competed for the right to set their rule on the newly discovered territories. Virtus Bering was one of the heroic explorers into the north of the Russian Siberia, who, thanks to the acknowledgment of Sir James Cook, is considered the pioneer of the Bering Strait. Vitus Bering (1681-1741) was a Danish cartographer and explorer who served Russia as an officer in the Russian Navy and later as the lead in two major efforts by Russia to explore the Arctic and eastern limits of the Asian continent to determine if Asia was connected to America by a land bridge. This book gives a detailed account of his life and world-famous expeditions.
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Download or read book Contributions to the Natural History of the Commander Islands written by Carl H. Eigenmann and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Plan for a Collection of the Building and Ornamental Stones and Rocks of the United States to be Exhibited at the World s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884 1885 at New Orleans written by Asa Gray and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vitus Bering written by Peter Lauridsen and published by Chicago : S.C. Griggs. This book was released on 1889 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Second Preliminary Report of the Bering Sea Fur Seal Investigations written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Commission on Fur-Seal Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
