The Sea Cow
Abstract The German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746) accompanied Vitus Jonassen Bering, a Dane in the Russian naval service, on the latter’s historic 1741-1742 expedition to discover the northwestern coast of America. Steller’s journal, published posthumously, records the perils of eight...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1990
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0002 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479441/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-2.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract The German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746) accompanied Vitus Jonassen Bering, a Dane in the Russian naval service, on the latter’s historic 1741-1742 expedition to discover the northwestern coast of America. Steller’s journal, published posthumously, records the perils of eighteenth century sea travel-thirty-two of the original seventy-eight crewmen died, including Bering, and forty-six spent the winter of 1741-1742 shipwrecked on a barren island in what was later named the Bering Sea. |
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