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Title: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska by Corey Ford, Lois Darling ISBN: 0-88240-394-X Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ford scores a home run.
Comment: This was a terrific story about the quest to find what is now Alaska. It gives insight into just how courageous these early exployers were. I can't comprehend of enduring those sort of hardships. Ford is also a good biologist and gives interesting commentary on the animal life. He also describes what may have been the first observation of a diving reflex in a marine mammal, the now extinct Northern sea cow. If you read this, it would be hard to complain about our current quality of life.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great account of the first explorers to discover Alaska.
Comment: A true account of Vitus Bering's voyage from Russia to discover what is now Alaska. Anyone interested in the history of Alaska should start by reading this book, or someone looking for an actual true life adventure story that makes one appreciate the dangers encounted in the 1700's by these amazing explorers. This book is written from the journals of Georg Stellar, the naturalist on-board the boat that discovered Alaska. The first written account and identification of many species that Stellar discovered and writes about in his journals. One of which is extinct today and his writings are the only account of the massive Stellar Sea Cow. A fabulous account of these adventurors and their interaction with the beautiful, but deadly, Alaska coast and it's native people.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great adventure book
Comment: Excellent story of the discovery of Alaska by the famous explorer,Vitus Bering and naturalist, Georg Steller. Combines text from Steller's extensive notes and observations of the author.
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Title: Journal of a Voyage With Bering 1741-1742 by Georg Wilhelm Steller, O. W. Frost ISBN: 0804721815 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Alaska by James A. Michener ISBN: 0449217264 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Roadside Geology of Alaska by Cathy Connor, Daniel O'Haire ISBN: 0878422137 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The native people of Alaska: Historic photos from various collections, Anchorage Museum of History and Art by Steve J. Langdon ISBN: 0936425032 Publisher: Greatland Graphics Pub. Date: 1987 |
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Title: Bering: The Russian Discovery of America by Orcutt Frost ISBN: 0300100590 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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