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Author | : Dean Littlepage |
Publisher | : The Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594850578 |
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History, adventure, and science-the 18th century naturalist, Georg Steller, sailed to the north coast of North America and introduced its biological wonders to the world.
Author | : Frank Alfred Golder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Bering Island (Russia) |
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Download 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 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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).
Author | : Frank Alfred Golder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Bering's Expedition |
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Download 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 L. Stejneger Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas McGuire |
Publisher | : Red Hen Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1597098280 |
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“Subtly reveals how we arrived at the Alaska of today . . . a book that is as much about the nature of life and love as orchid hunting and ambition.” —Doug Fine, author of American Hemp Farmer In 1924, Yale student John Lars Nelson takes ship on the SS Victoria, bound for Nome. He has been hired to do a plant survey, but his real mission is to find an orchid described by Georg Wilhelm Steller, the naturalist on Vitus Bering’s 1741 expedition. On the ship, John Lars encounters a young Aleut woman, Natasha Christiansen. Once in Nome he hires a pair of down-at-the-heels bootleggers to take him to the Shumagin Islands on their schooner, the Emilia Galotti. He quickly discovers that the two are not what they first seemed . . . In Bristol Bay he again encounters Natasha and she joins them but she and John are marooned shortly thereafter. They cross the Alaskan Peninsula on foot and then in a borrowed skiff reach Nagai Island, where Bering made his landfall two centuries before. They find the Emilia there, along with another ship, and the hunt for the orchid brings to a violent resolution an intrigue started many years before. “In Nelson, Tom McGuire has created a smart, capable, and endearing narrator for this old-fashioned adventure, mystery, and coming of age novel. Steller’s Orchid is authentically Alaskan and refreshingly original. It belongs on the shelf with Eowyn Ivey’s To the Bright Edge of the World and Lynn Schooler’s Walking Home.” —Heather Lende, New York Times-bestselling author of Of Bears and Ballots “A perfect example of literature that can entertain while also teaching about place, history and the human heart.” —Anchorage Daily News
Author | : Georg Steller |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609620100 |
Download De bestiis marinis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Steller's classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or "sea bear" (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller's sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). Steller's sea cow was a sirenian, or manatee, inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. It was first discovered by Europeans in 1741 and rendered extinct by 1768. It was a 30-foot long, plant-eating aquatic mammal, weighing up to 12 tons, that lived in large herds on the coasts of Alaska and Kamchatka. Steller made his observations as part of Vitus Bering's second voyage, during which the crew was shipwrecked for 9 months on Bering Island, from November 1741 to August 1742.
Author | : Frank C. Whitmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Download Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis Gigas) of Late Pleistocene Age from Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : American Geographical Society of New York |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Geography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Lauridsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Bering Island (Russia) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Georg Wilhelm Steller |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804721813 |
Download Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New translation based completely on a surviving copy of Steller's 1743 manuscript that details the exploration of Alaska.
Author | : Stephen R. Bown |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306825201 |
Download Island of the Blue Foxes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.