Bering's Sucessors 1745-1780, Contributions of Peter Simon Pallas to the History of Russian Exploration Toward Alaska
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1948.
Hardcover. Very Good. vii, 96 pp + folding maps. Light wear to edges, minimal soiling to boards, small stamp on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. This volume "provides for the first time an English translation of the third near-contemporary compendium on the post-Bering voyages and thus completes the ready accessibility in English of all the main sources on these voyages" (Foreword). Includes sections on Copper Island, Chuckchi Peninsula, Ivan Soloviev's voyage, and other topics.
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