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Island of the Blue Foxes
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Island of the Blue Foxes

Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition

by Stephen R. Bown

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Nov 7, 2017

Page Count

352 Pages

Publisher

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ISBN-13

9780306825194

Genre

Nonfiction / History / Russia & The Former Soviet Union

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The story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told

The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire’s annual revenue. Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and “one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.
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Meet The Author: Stephen R. Bown

Stephen R. Bown is author of The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen and White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic, which won the Williams Mills Award for the best book on the Arctic in 2016. His award-winning books, including Scurvy and Madness, Betrayal, and the Lash, have led to a reputation as “Canada’s Simon Winchester.”

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A Talk with Stephen Bown, Author of Island of the Blue Foxes

A Talk with Stephen Bown, Author of ISLAND OF THE BLUE FOXES

What was the Great Northern Expedition? Also known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition, it was the greatest scientific expedition in history—spanning three continents and nearly ten years. It was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific voyage in history, easily on par with Lewis and Clark’s epic cross-continental trek, or any of James Cook’s famous voyages.…
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A Talk with Stephen Bown, Author of ISLAND OF THE BLUE FOXES