Peter ulf moller (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. 18th-century Danish explorer Vitus Bering led historic expeditions to the Russian Far East and Alaska under the patronage of Peter the Great, and his wife Anna Christina accompanied him on his expedition to Okhotsk in 1739. This volume presents the letters that they wrote over the following year. It looks into 18th…

Zustand: New. 2002. Bilingual. Paperback. Examines topics such as expedition historiography, the participants' daily life, the beginnings of scientific ethnography and the connection between the expeditions' scientific objectives and their political ends. Editor(s): Moller, Peter Ulf; Lind, Natasha Okhotina. Series: Berengiana S…

Zustand: New. Explores "The First Kamchatka Expedition", a classic among the voyages of discovery, famous for the discovery of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America. This journal is the only official document that preserves its history in detail, day by day. It includes introductory articles and commentary by speciali…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From 1725 until his death in 1741, Bering commanded two of the most ambitious journeys of exploration in the 18th century. Each required years of overland travel across Asia to reach desolate Kamchatka and the Pacific coast of Siberia, where the crews had to build their own ships. Only then c…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The First Kamchatka Expedition is a classic among the voyages of discovery, being famous for the discovery of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America. Chaplin's journal holds a special place among the documents of the expedition. It is the only official document that preserves its history i…