Description: Journal of a Voyage With Bering 1, Paperback by Steller, Georg Wilhelm; Frost, O. W., ISBN 0804721815, ISBN-13 9780804721813, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The European discovery of the northwest coast of America is fully and dramatically recorded in this journal, an invaluable historical and scientific source document. It is also a gripping narrative of human conflict, of nature as the overwhelming adversary, of terror and pain and death, and of final the service of the Russian tsarina, the German naturalist Steller accompanied the great Danish explorer Vitus Bering on a voyage that survived shipwreck and unimaginable hardship to mark the beginning of Alaska's recorded history. This book is a new translation and annotation of Steller's journal of that voyage and the first to be based completely upon a surviving copy of Steller's manuscript dated 1743 (previous translation had been based on a 1793 edition). The journal is the best known of Steller's writings, not so much because of events along the way, or its biological and anthropological observations, not even because of the momentous sight of the Alaskan coast and the subsequent landings, but because of the harrowing events of the return men of the 78 who set sail died, including Bering himself; 46 survived shipwreck in the winter of 1741-42 on a treeless, uninhabited island, and returned finally to home port on Kamchatka in a small vessel built from timbers of the wrecked ship. On the island, Bering and his lieutenant had become too ill to function and Steller found himself taking the lead in organizing work parties, finding antiscorbutic plant and animal food, nursing the six, and cheering the depressed—actions that kept all from perishing.
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Book Title: Journal of a Voyage With Bering 1741-1742
Number of Pages: 260 Pages
Publication Name: Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 1993
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Europe / Western, World
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: History
Author: Georg Wilhelm Steller
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
