Steller's Island

Steller's Island
Author: Dean Littlepage
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781594850578

History, adventure, and science-the 18th century naturalist, Georg Steller, sailed to the north coast of North America and introduced its biological wonders to the world.

Bering's Voyages: Steller's journal of the sea voyage from Kamchatka to America and return on the second expedition, 1741-1742; translated and in part annotated by Leonhard Stejneger

Bering's Voyages: Steller's journal of the sea voyage from Kamchatka to America and return on the second expedition, 1741-1742; translated and in part annotated by Leonhard Stejneger
Author: Frank Alfred Golder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1925
Genre: Bering Island (Russia)
ISBN:

Translated from the logs and journals. Includes a chart of the voyage of Bering and Chirikov in the St. Peter and the St. Paul from Kamchatka to the Alaska coast and return, 1741, based on the log books and other original records and adjusted to known physical conditions by Ellsworth P. Bertholf (v.1).

Astro

Astro
Author: Jeanne Walker Harvey
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1607180766

After Astro, an orphaned Steller sea lion, was rescued by scientists at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, his attachment to people made him unable to be returned to the ocean and he now lives at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

Bering's Voyages

Bering's Voyages
Author: Frank Alfred Golder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1968
Genre: Bering's Expedition
ISBN:

Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742

Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
Author: Georg Wilhelm Steller
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804721813

New translation based completely on a surviving copy of Steller's 1743 manuscript that details the exploration of Alaska.

De bestiis marinis

De bestiis marinis
Author: Georg Steller
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1609620100

Steller's classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or "sea bear" (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller's sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). Steller's sea cow was a sirenian, or manatee, inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. It was first discovered by Europeans in 1741 and rendered extinct by 1768. It was a 30-foot long, plant-eating aquatic mammal, weighing up to 12 tons, that lived in large herds on the coasts of Alaska and Kamchatka. 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.

Island of the Blue Foxes

Island of the Blue Foxes
Author: Stephen R. Bown
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0306825201

The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told 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, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.