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Journal of a Voyage With Bering 1741-1742, Paperback by Steller, Georg Wilhel...
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- Book Title
- Journal of a Voyage With Bering 1741-1742
- ISBN
- 9780804721813
- Subject Area
- History
- Publication Name
- Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Subject
- Europe / Western, World
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 12.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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The European discovery of the northwest coast of America is fully and dramatically recorded in this journal, an invaluable historical and scientific source document. It is also a gripping narrative of human conflict, of nature as the overwhelming adversary, of terror and pain and death, and of final deliverance. In the service of the Russian tsarina, the German naturalist Steller accompanied the great Danish explorer Vitus Bering on a voyage that survived shipwreck and unimaginable hardship to mark the beginning of Alaska's recorded history. This book is a new translation and annotation of Steller's journal of that voyage and the first to be based completely upon a surviving copy of Steller's manuscript dated 1743 (previous translation had been based on a 1793 edition). The journal is the best known of Steller's writings, not so much because of events along the way, or its biological and anthropological observations, not even because of the momentous sight of the Alaskan coast and the subsequent landings, but because of the harrowing events of the return voyage. Thirty-two men of the 78 who set sail died, including Bering himself; 46 survived shipwreck in the winter of 1741-42 on a treeless, uninhabited island, and returned finally to home port on Kamchatka in a small vessel built from timbers of the wrecked ship. On the island, Bering and his lieutenant had become too ill to function and Steller found himself taking the lead in organizing work parties, finding antiscorbutic plant and animal food, nursing the six, and cheering the depressed--actions that kept all from perishing.
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804721815
ISBN-13
9780804721813
eBay Product ID (ePID)
975751
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
Publication Year
1993
Subject
Europe / Western, World
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
910/.0916451
Lc Classification Number
F907
Copyright Date
1988
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