Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition

by Stephen R. Bown

Book 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 18th-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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306825198
• ISBN13: 9780306825194
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"