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Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The immense eighteenth-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering, the ten-year voyage, which included scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents how Columbus's New World discoveries inflamed a conflict between the leaders of Portugal and Spain that was resolved by Pope Alexander VI, who proclaimed territory divisions in the Atlantic that had a profound influence on centuries of history.
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