Island of the blue foxes : disaster and triumph on the world's greatest scientific expedition / Stephen R. Bown.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2017Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- General
- 9780306825194
- Kamchatskai͡a kspedit͡sii͡a (2nd : 1733-1744)
- Kamchatskai͡a kspedit͡sii͡a (2nd : 1733-1744)
- Scientific expeditions -- History -- 18th century
- Discoveries in geography
- Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions -- History -- 18th century
- Scientific expeditions -- History
- Exploration
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
- Alaska -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
- Northwest Coast of North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
- Arctic regions -- Exploration
- Alaska -- Exploration
- Northwest Coast of North America -- Exploration
- Russia -- Exploring expeditions
- 910.9164/51 23
- 910.9164 15
- G700 1733 .B69 2017
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"A Merloyd Lawrence book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index.
Recounts the treacherous and ultimately successful eighteenth century scientific expedition from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America that discovered Alaska and opened the Pacific fur trade.
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