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Vitus Bering
Author | : Peter Lauridsen |
Publisher | : Chicago : S.C. Griggs |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Bering Island |
ISBN | : |
VITUS BERING
Author | : PETER. LAURIDSEN |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033132012 |
Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
Author | : Georg Wilhelm Steller |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804721813 |
New translation based completely on a surviving copy of Steller's 1743 manuscript that details the exploration of Alaska.
Vitus Bering
Author | : Peter Lauridsen |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781507535844 |
"[...]long enough to see his gigantic plans approach realization. Bering was buried on an island in the Pacific, amid the scenes of his labors, under that sand-barrow which had been his death-bed. For many generations only a plain wooden cross marked his resting-place, and as for his fame, it has been as humble and modest as his head-board. His labors belonged to a strange people who had but little sympathy for the man. His own countrymen, among whom he might have found this sympathetic interest, knew his work but very imperfectly. Not until after the lapse of a century did he find a careful biographer, and even within comparatively recent years the great scientist Von Baer has found it necessary to defend him against misunderstandings and petty attacks. [...]".
Island of the Blue Foxes
Author | : Stephen R. Bown |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306825201 |
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.
Journey Into the Fog
Author | : Cornelia Goodhue |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258138943 |