Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, invo…
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