Author: Frank Alfred GolderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kamchatskai︠a︡ ėkspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Bering's Voyages: The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1733-1742
Author: Frank Alfred GolderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kamchatskai︠a︡ ėkspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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
Author: Frank Alfred GolderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bering Island (Russia)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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).
Bering's Voyages
Author: Gerard Fridrikh MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
First translated account of the travels round the shores of Bristol Bay of two P. Korsakovskiy (1818) and I. Ya. Vasilev (1829). Contains useful information on the region's ethnography, natural history, and geography, as well as observations important to the development of the fur trade. Maps included.
Bering's Voyages: The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1733-1742. The first expedition, 1725-1730, and its setting. The geographical knowledge of the north Pacific Ocean at the beginning of the eighteenth century
Author: Frank Alfred GolderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bering Island (Russia)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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).
Bering's Voyages
Author: Frank Alfred GolderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bering's Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
Author: Georg Wilhelm StellerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804721813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
New translation based completely on a surviving copy of Steller's 1743 manuscript that details the exploration of Alaska.
Bering
Author: Orcutt William FrostPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300100594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Om den danske opdagelsesrejsende Vitus Bering (1681-1741) og om hans rejser fra Sibirien til Nordamerika og Alaska
Bering's Voyages: The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1733-1742.- v.2. 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
Author: Leonhard StejnegerVoyages of Delusion
Author: Glyndwr WilliamsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300098662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Describes the expeditions embarked upon by sailors and speculators to navigate the Northwest Passage during the Age of Reason in the eighteenth century.
Island of the Blue Foxes
Author: Stephen R. BownPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306825201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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.