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    Category Arctic;
    Author Leonhard Stejneger
    Title Georg Wilhem Steller: The Pioneer of Alaskan Natural History
    Publishing Information Farnborough: Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1970 0576291242
    Description 1970 publication of the original1936 Edition: 623pages, illustrated 29 plates. Red cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. Bibliography.Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709 - 1746) German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer is considered a pioneer of Alaskan natural history. He accompanied Vitus Bering on the Second Kamchatka Expedition (ca.1740), sailed with Bering across the straits to land at Kayak, Alaska in 1741. Steller became the first European naturalist to describe many North American plants and animals, including several species that bear his name, such as Steller's sea cow. His extraordinary survival through wrecks, disease, and starvation on the return trip is one of the great chapters of Arctic exploration.
    Price £75.00
    Keywords bibliography, arctic, artic S1-Arc
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