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Island of the Blue Foxes

Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition. A Merloyd Lawrence Book

By (author) Stephen Bown
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Hachette Books, United States
Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc
Published: 30th Nov 2017
Dimensions: w 153mm h 234mm d 37mm
Weight: 535g
ISBN-10: 0306825198
ISBN-13: 9780306825194
Barcode No: 9780306825194
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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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