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Steller made his observations as part of Vitus Bering's second voyage, during which the crew was shipwrecked for 9 months on Bering Island, from November 1741 to August 1742.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394234585361,"sku":"CIN1609620100G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52752861659409,"sku":"NIN9781609620103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1609620100.jpg?v=1750926678"},{"product_id":"reise-von-kamtschatka-nach-amerika-mit-vitus-bering-book-georg-steller-9783954272198","title":"Reise von Kamtschatka nach Amerika mit Vitus Bering","description":"Unter dem Kommando des danischen Kapitans Vitus Bering sticht am 15. Juni 1941 in Kamtschatka die St. Peter in See. Mit an Bord ist der Naturforscher und Arzt Georg Wilhelm Steller. Die abenteuerliche Reise fuhrt ihn zur Insel Alaska, die er als erster europaischer Naturforscher betritt. Wahrend der sturmischen Ruckfahrt kommt es zu dramatischen Ereignissen: Die St. Peter strandet auf der spater so genannten Beringinsel, wo Kommandeur Bering kurze Zeit spater stirbt. Fur die Crew folgt ein monatelanger Uberlebenskampf, erst im Herbst 1742 schaffen es Steller und die anderen, zuruck nach Kamtschatka zu gelangen. Mehr als 30 Jahre nach der Expedition, im Jahr 1793, wird Stellers Reisebericht veroffentlicht. Dieser enthalt neben der Schilderung der dramatischen Fahrt auch eine Vielzahl geografischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnografischer Beobachtungen. 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Steller arrived in Kamchatka in 1740, sailed with Bering to discover Alaska in 1741, and composed his handwritten manuscript on Kamchatka in 1743 and 1744. That manuscript was finally published in German thirty years after his death, and this first-ever English translation of that German edition is most valuable for its descriptions of the natural and human worlds that Steller found in the mid-eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Steller's extensive natural history includes special contributions to the study of fish, in which he described over thirty new species and two new genera, and to ornithology, which also includes the first descriptions of numerous species. His careful observations of Kamchatka's Native peoples add to the small and invaluable collection of ethnographic and linguistic descriptions made during the initial acculturation process and the growth of a new economy based on the fur trade, which changed their lives forever. Steller's observations of the economy of Kamchatka and the role of the Cossacks is refreshingly frank. He was the first scientist to suggest, based on direct observation, similarities between the ethnography and natural history of the Russian Far East and that of the newly discovered Alaska.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Steller's breadth and depth in recording the natural and human world of eighteenth-century Alaska make this new translation an important reference for readers interested in all aspects of North Pacific and Russian American history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52488015577361,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52488016199953,"sku":"NLS9781889963495","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781889963495.jpg?v=1759862162"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-georg-steller.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}