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Author : Peter Lauridsen
Publisher : Books for Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait written by Peter Lauridsen and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1889 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orcutt William Frost
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300100594
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Bering written by Orcutt William Frost and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om den danske opdagelsesrejsende Vitus Bering (1681-1741) og om hans rejser fra Sibirien til Nordamerika og Alaska
Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306825201
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Island of the Blue Foxes written by Stephen R. Bown and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : James Oliver
Publisher : INFORMATION ARCHITECTS
ISBN 13 : 0954699564
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (546 download)
Download or read book The Bering Strait Crossing written by James Oliver and published by INFORMATION ARCHITECTS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bering Strait Crossing is the epic story of the Intercontinental Divide. This is where the 53-mile wide strait, named for Danish explorer Vitus Bering (1681-1741), separates four continents across the Europe-Asia landmass and the Americas.
Author : Peter Lauridsen
Publisher : Chicago : S.C. Griggs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Vitus Bering written by Peter Lauridsen and published by Chicago : S.C. Griggs. This book was released on 1889 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel T. O'Neill
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813341972
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Last Giant of Beringia written by Daniel T. O'Neill and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the work of geologist Dave Hopkins, whose research solved the mystery of the existence of Beringia, the Bering Land Bridge.
Author : Georg Wilhelm Steller
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721813
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 written by Georg Wilhelm Steller and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New translation based completely on a surviving copy of Steller's 1743 manuscript that details the exploration of Alaska.
Author : Dean Littlepage
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781594850578
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Steller's Island written by Dean Littlepage and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, adventure, and science-the 18th century naturalist, Georg Steller, sailed to the north coast of North America and introduced its biological wonders to the world.
Author : Bathsheba Demuth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635171
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait written by Bathsheba Demuth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 AHA John H. Dunning Prize Longlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Nature, NPR, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews "A monument to a people and their land… an allegory of the world we have created." —Sven Beckert, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of Cotton: A Global History Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before American and European colonization. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.
Author : Georg Steller
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1609620100
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book De bestiis marinis written by Georg Steller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steller's classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or "sea bear" (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller's sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). Steller's sea cow was a sirenian, or manatee, inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. It was first discovered by Europeans in 1741 and rendered extinct by 1768. It was a 30-foot long, plant-eating aquatic mammal, weighing up to 12 tons, that lived in large herds on the coasts of Alaska and Kamchatka. Steller made his observations as part of Vitus Bering's second voyage, during which the crew was shipwrecked for 9 months on Bering Island, from November 1741 to August 1742.
Author : David Moody Hopkins
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804702720
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Bering Land Bridge written by David Moody Hopkins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data of geology, oceanography, paleontology, plant geography, and anthropology focus on problems and lessons of Beringia. Includes papers presented at Symposium held at VII Congress of International Association for Quaternary Research, Boulder, Colorado, 1965.
Author : Corey Ford
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882409735
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Where the Sea Breaks Its Back written by Corey Ford and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among this country's greatest outdoor writing" by Field & Stream magazine, and today continues to enchant and enlighten the new generations of readers about this amazing and yet tragic expedition, and Georg Steller's significant discoveries as an early naturalist.
Author : Peter Lauridsen
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait written by Peter Lauridsen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of the great geographic discoveries, the greatest countries of the world competed for the right to set their rule on the newly discovered territories. Virtus Bering was one of the heroic explorers into the north of the Russian Siberia, who, thanks to the acknowledgment of Sir James Cook, is considered the pioneer of the Bering Strait. Vitus Bering (1681-1741) was a Danish cartographer and explorer who served Russia as an officer in the Russian Navy and later as the lead in two major efforts by Russia to explore the Arctic and eastern limits of the Asian continent to determine if Asia was connected to America by a land bridge. This book gives a detailed account of his life and world-famous expeditions.
Author : Sophy Roberts
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802149308
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Lost Pianos of Siberia written by Sophy Roberts and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux
Author : Konrad Bayer
Publisher : Serpents Tail
ISBN 13 : 9780947757830
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Head of Vitus Bering written by Konrad Bayer and published by Serpents Tail. This book was released on 1994 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second major publication by this Austrian writer and one of the most important works written during the existence of the so-called Vienna Group.
Author : Helene Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052188828X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia written by Helene Marsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synthesis of the ecological and related knowledge pertinent to understanding the biology and conservation of dugongs and manatees.
Author : Raymond Henry Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Bering's Voyages written by Raymond Henry Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed examination of the voyages made in 1728 and 1741 which resulted in the discovery of the Bering Strait and Alaska.
