Overview
The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told. 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. Until now recorded only in academic works, this ten-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.
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Author: Steven Crossley ,
Stephen R Bown
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200422463
Publication Date: 30 April 2018
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""A gripping account of 'the most extensive scientific expedition in history, ' whose impressive results were certainly matched by its duration and miseries.' -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Details the highs and lows of one of the greatest expeditions in world history and one which has been largely forgotten by mainstream humanity."" -- ""New York Journal of Books"" ""Well-written, fast-paced."" -- ""Portland Book Review"" [An] excellent work of historical reconstruction that will enamor fans of the Age of Exploration."" -- ""Booklist"" [A] little-known, white-knuckle tale of ambition, ingenuity, and the raw fight for survival...An amazing story, both in its intimate details of day-to-day adventure and survival and its large-scale political and scientific implications."" -- ""Calgary Herald"""
Author Information
Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas. Stephen R. Bown has written ten books on the history of exploration, science, and ideas--including books on the medical mystery of scurvy, the Treaty of Tordesillas, the lives of Captain George Vancouver, and of Roald Amundsen and a doomed Russian sea voyage. His books have been published in multiple English-speaking territories, translated into nine languages, and shortlisted for many awards. He has won the BC Book Prize, the Alberta Book Award, the William Mills Prize for Polar Books. His book Island of Blue Foxes, about Vitus Bering's voyage to Alaska, was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize. Born in Ottawa, he now lives near Banff in the Canadian Rockies.
