Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742

by Georg Steller

Book Overview

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 deliverance.

In the service of the Russian tsarina, the German naturalist Steller accompanied the great Danish explorer Vitus Bering on a voyage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804721815
• ISBN13: 9780804721813
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"