| Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition Contributor(s): Bown, Stephen R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306825198 ISBN-13: 9780306825194 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Expeditions & Discoveries - History | Polar Regions - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 910.916 |
| Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.45 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |