The Great Land

by Jeremy Atiyah

For more than a hundred years after Europeans had begun populating the Atlantic shores of North America, the Pacific coast of that continent remained a blank on their maps and in their minds. When Russians from Siberia first sighted the mountains of Alaska in 1741, they called it the Great Land. In fact they were glimpsing part of a 4,000-mile stretch of virgin coastline, reaching from Western Alaska to Oregon to Southern California. As far as Spanish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955832705
• ISBN13: 9780955832703
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"