Under Vitus Bering's command : new perspectives on the Russian Kamchatka expeditions / edited by Peter Ulf Møller and Natasha Okhotina Lind.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Møller, Peter Ulf.

Okhotina-Lind, Natalʹi︠a︡.

Series:

Berengiana ; 1.

Berengiana ; 1

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Bering, Vitus Jonassen, 1681-1741--Travel.

Bering, Vitus Jonassen.

Bering, Vitus Jonassen, 1681-1741.

Kamchatskai︠a︡ ėkspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡.

Travel.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press ; Oxford : Lavis Marketing, 2003.

Language Note:

Text in English and Russian.

Contents:

The First Kamchatka Expedition in Focus / Carol Urness 17

The First Pianist in Okhotsk. New Information on Anna Christina Bering / Natasha Okhotina Lind 51

The Changing Images of Vitus Bering. A Critical Study in the Russian and Danish Historiography of his Expeditions / Peter Ulf Moller 83

Johann Georg Gmelin and the Second Kamchatka Expedition / Dittmar Dahlmann 113

Gerhard Friedrich Muller's Instructions and the Beginning of Scientific Ethnography / Gudrun Bucher 135

Gerhard-Friedrich Muller's Correspondence with Leonhard Euler and Anton Friedrich Busching during and after the Second Kamchatka Expedition, 1733-1743 / Dittmar Dahlmann 159

The Travel Journals of Georg Wilhelm Steller / Wieland Hintzsche 171

The Bering Letters from Okhotsk, February 1740 Eleven letters to the family. Five letters to the professor, the resident and their wives / Translated from the German by Anna Halager, Introduced and annotated by Peter Ulf Moller 237

Bering and the Kamchatka Expeditions. A Bibliography / Peter Ulf Moller 270.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-304)

ISBN:

8772889322

OCLC:

50877424