Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of AlaskaAuthor Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among this country's greatest outdoor writing" by Field & Stream magazine, and today continues to enchant and enlighten the new generations of readers about this amazing and yet tragic expedition, and Georg Steller's significant discoveries as an early naturalist. |
Contents
The Captain Commander | |
Voyage to the Unknown | |
Ten Years for Ten Hours | |
A Sound of Gunfire | |
By the Will of God | |
Bering Island | |
The Long Winter | |
Stellers Sea | |
Return of the St Peter | |
Journeys | |
THE PLUNDERERS Bibliography | |
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg ... Corey Ford No preview available - 1992 |
Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg ... Corey Ford No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
aboard Academy Alaska Aleuts Amchitka American anchor animal ashore Avacha Bay baidarkas beach Bering Island Bering's birds boat Bolshaya Zemlya Bolsheretsk cabin called camp Cape Lopatka Captain Commander carried casks castaways Chirikov coast cossack crew Croyere deck discovered drifting driftwood expedition eyes fathoms feet fire Fleet Master foxes fur seals Gmelin hand harbor hunters hunting journal Kamchadals Kamchatka Kayak Island kelp Kiska Koryak land Lepekhin Lieutenant longboat mainland Master Khitrov meat miles morning mountains mouth natives naturalist never night ocean officers Okhotsk Ovtsin Pacific paddled party pelts Peter Petersburg Petropavlovsk Plenisner promyshleniki rocks Russian sail sailors scurvy sea cow sea lion sea otter ship ship’s shore Siberia sick sighted skins snow Spanberg spoonwort Steller wrote storm surf Theophon tide vessel volcanoes voyage waves Waxell weather williwaw wind winter Yakutsk yawl young