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Eastbound Through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition Hardcover - 2020

by Jonathan C. Slaght; Margritt A. Engel (Translator); Karen E. Willmore (Translator)

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  • Title Eastbound Through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition
  • Author Jonathan C. Slaght; Margritt A. Engel (Translator); Karen E. Willmore (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date 2020-05-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780253047779 / 0253047773
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Discoveries in geography, Diaries
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020288799
  • Dewey Decimal Code 915.704

About the author

Georg Wilhelm Steller was a German scientist who lived from 1709 to 1746, and worked as a botanist, zoologist, and physician. He was part of the second crew for the Great Northern Expedition.

Margritt A. Engel is Professor Emerita of Languages at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is translator of Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 and Steller's History of Kamchatka.

Karen E. Willmore is Professor Emerita of Languages at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is translator of Steller's History of Kamchatka.

Jonathan C. Slaght is the Russia and Northeast Asia Coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society. He is editor and translator (with Vladimir K. Arsenyev) of Across the Ussuri Kray: Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains.

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