Travels in Kamtschatka
Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy de Lesseps (1766–1834), a French diplomat, served as an interpreter on La Pérouse's voyage around the world, which sailed from Brest in 1785. In 1787, on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, he was tasked with an overland mission to get reports back to France a...
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139856324 |