Reindeer, Dogs, and Snow-Shoes
The Russo-American Telegraph Project of 1865–7 was truly monumental. Although plans to lay cable from San Francisco to Moscow via Alaska and Siberia were superseded by the laying of the sub-Atlantic cable, one of the benefits of the enterprise was the knowledge of the area gained by those engineers...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139235853 |