Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867
by
Ryan Tucker Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the...