Island of the blue foxes: disaster and triumph on the world's greatest scientific expedition
"The story of the Great Northern Expedition, an epic tale of shipwreck and survival from the Age of Sail. The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history. Lasting nearly ten years and spanning three continents, its geographical, cartograph...
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Zusammenfassung: | "The story of the Great Northern Expedition, an epic tale of shipwreck and survival from the Age of Sail. The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history. Lasting nearly ten years and spanning three continents, its geographical, cartographical and natural history accomplishments are on par with James Cook's famous voyages, the scientific circumnavigations of Alessandro Malaspina and Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lewis and Clark's cross-continental trek. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men, including the German naturalist and surgeon Georg Steller. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. Island of the Blue Foxes is an incredible true-life adventure story, a story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity."-- |
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adam_text | CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
THE
EDGE
OF
THE
WORLD
I
PART
ONE.
EUROPE
CHAPTER
1
THE
GREAT
EMBASSY
IO
CHAPTER
2
THE
FIRST
KAMCHATKA
EXPEDITION
27
CHAPTER
3
THE
BEST-LAID
PLANS
53
PART
TWO.
ASIA
CHAPTER
4
ST. PETERSBURG
TO
SIBERIA
72
CHAPTER
5
QUARRELING
FACTIONS 85
CHAPTER
6
PHANTOM
ISLANDS
IO2
PART
THREE.
AMERICA
CHAPTER
7
BOLSHAYA
ZEMLYA,
THE
GREAT LAND
CHAPTER
8
CURIOUS
ENCOUNTERS
CHAPTER
9
THE SCOURGE
OF
THE
SEA
VII
$
BIIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE A
124
146
167
VIII
CONTENTS
PART
FOUR. NOWHERE
CHAPTER
10
ISLAND
OF
THE
BLUE FOXES
CHAPTER
11
DEATH
AND
PLAYING
CARDS
CHAPTER
12
A
NEW
ST.
PETER
EPILOGUE
RUSSIAN
AMERICA
NOTES
A
NOTE
ON
SOURCES
AND
FURTHER
READING
SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IMAGE SOURCES
INDEX
ABOUT
THE
AUTHOR
IGO
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