Under Vitus Bering's Command: New Perspectives on the Russian Kamchatka Expeditions (Berengiana, 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8772889322 ISBN 13: 9788772889320

Verlag: Aarhus University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Between 1725 and his death in 1741, Vitus Bering commanded two of the 18th century's most ambitious journeys of exploration. Each involved years of overland travel across Asia to reach desolate Kamchatka and the Pacific coast of Siberia where the explorers had to build their own ships. Only then could their search for the mythical North-East Passage and the north-western coast of America begin fully.
In the last decade, the discovery of forgotten documents in Russian archives has revitalised the study of these legendary expeditions. The contributors to this volume are all part of the new scholarship. Here they examine such topics as the purpose of the First Kamchatka Expedition; the participants' daily life; the role of Bering's wife Anna; various aspects of expedition historiography; Count Ostermann as a patron of the Second Kamchatka Expedition; the diaries, letters and scientific contributions of the expeditions' German scholars: Gmelin, Muller and Steller.
Seven of the 12 articles are in English with a Russian abstract. Five are in Russian with and English abstract. The volume also includes the first publication in English of 16 recently discovered private letters from members of the Bering household. All were written in Okhotsk in February 1740.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Aarhus University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8772889322
• ISBN 13: 9788772889320
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Moller Peter Ulf, Lind Natasha
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar