Island Of The Blue Foxes: Disaster And Triumph On The World's Greatest Scientific Expedition (a Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by Stephen R. Bown /
2017 / English / EPUB
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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 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."
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."