Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
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Bown, Stephen R.
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Bown, Stephen R. Author
Crossley, Steven Narrator
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Tantor Media, Inc , 2018.
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Polar Exploration
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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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eAudiobook
Edition
Unabridged
Street Date
04/30/2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781977392732
Subjects
History
Nonfiction

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bown, S. R., & Crossley, S. (2018). Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition (Unabridged). Tantor Media, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bown, Stephen R and Steven Crossley. 2018. Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph On the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition. Tantor Media, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bown, Stephen R and Steven Crossley. Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph On the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition Tantor Media, Inc, 2018.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Bown, S. R. and Crossley, S. (2018). Island of the blue foxes: disaster and triumph on the world's greatest scientific expedition. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bown, Stephen R., and Steven Crossley. Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph On the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition Unabridged, Tantor Media, Inc, 2018.

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