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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
By Bown, Stephen R.
- ISBN
- 9780306825194 9780306825200
- Publisher
- Da Capo: Perseus
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Reviewed on November 1, 2017 | social sciences
Bown (White Eskimo) asserts that Captain Vitus Bering (1681–1741) and the Great Northern Expedition should be regarded as one of the world's greatest explorers and expeditions. In the 1720s, Peter the Great wanted to prove Russia's might by sending surveyors across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and onward to America. The journey was an effort to gather cartographic, geographic, and cultural information, while exerting political power over fur...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
