Sea cows, shamans, and scurvy : Alaska's first naturalist : Georg Wilhelm Steller

Arnold, Ann, 1952-

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On June 4, 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller set sail from Avacha Bay in Siberia on the St. Peter, under the command of Vitus Bering. The crew was bound for America on the last leg of an expedition whose mission was to explore, describe, and map Russias vast lands from the Ural Mountains across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and possibly lay claim to the northwest coast of America, if they could find it, for no European had ever reached America by...

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ISBN:

9780374399474
0374399476

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xii, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216 and index

Contents:

Sonntagskind: a Sunday's child, 1709-1734
Russia's great explorations: the first and second Kamchatka expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1731-1743
On to Russia: Stoller becomes Steller, St. Petersburg, 1734
Steller's journey begins, Siberia 1738-1739
Barguzinian Mountains, 1739-1740
Provisioning the expedition, March 1733-June 1734
Captain Martin Spangberg: Okhotsk, the Kuril Islands, and Japan, 1734-1741
Volcanic wilderness of Kamchatka, 1740-1741
Avacha Bay: Steller signs on the St. Peter, 1741
They set sail for America, June 1741
Return voyage: kayaks and death, July-September 1741
Devastating voyage: scurvy and williwaws, September-November 1741
Kamchatka or a Barren Island, November-December 1741
Bering Island, December 1741-May 1742-- Sea eagles and sea cows: the natural history of Bering Island, May-August 1742
Safe return to Kamchatka, August 1742-July 1744
Steller on trial, August 1744-November 1746

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2006037400

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447657

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