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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition

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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition - Bown, Stephen R
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"The immense eighteenth-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. Led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering, the ten-year voyage, which included scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and, thanks to the brilliant ...

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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition 2017, Da Capo Press

ISBN-13: 9780306825194

Hardcover

Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition 2017, Douglas & McIntyre

ISBN-13: 9781771621618

Hardcover