The Singing Bones: A Novel of the Life and Times of Naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller

by Stephen Spotte

Book Overview

The Singing Bones recounts the life and times of eighteenth century polymath and explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller, the first European naturalist to visit Alaska.

The first to propose that America was originally peopled by migrants from Siberia, Steller was aboard the packet boat St. Peter commanded by Vitus Bering on the Second Great Northern Expedition sponsored by the Russian Admiralty to determine if Asia and North America were connected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948598221
• ISBN13: 9781948598224
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Open Books Publishing (UK)
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"