Livro Steller's History Of Kamchatka: Collected Information Concerning The History Of Kamchatka, Its Peoples, Their Manners, Names, Lifestyles, And Various ... Library Historical Translation Series) de Georg Steller pela University Of Alaska Press (2003)

Descrição: Everything was of interest to Georg Wilhelm Steller, who the Russian Academy of Sciences appointed as naturalist to Vitus Bering’s second Kamchatka expedition. 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.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 proce

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Dimensões: 15 x 23 x 2 cm³

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Estante: História Geral

Peso: 510 gramas

Idioma: Inglês

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