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Sea Cows, Shamans, and Scurvy
Alaska's First Naturalist
By Arnold, Ann
- ISBN
- 978-0-37439-947-4
- Publisher
- Foster Farrar
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2009
Gr 7-Up Arnold tells an amazing story of exploration, natural history, and survival. Steller was a naturalist/doctor who accompanied the explorer Vitus Bering on his voyages from the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Alaska coast at a time when that area was one of the last uncharted spots on the world map. From 1738, when Steller set off overland from Moscow to cross the Ural Mountains and join Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition, until he died in 1743, he documented Siberian and Alaska plant and animal ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
A half-century before Lewis and Clark mapped out our country, German scientist Georg Steller set out on a similar mission across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and into what is now Alaska. He identified numerous previously unknown animals (such as Steller's sea cow, sea eagle, and sea lion) and plants (Steller's wormwood) in this undocumented land. In addition, Stell...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
In the 1740s, German scientist Georg Steller set out across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and into what is now Alaska. He identifi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
