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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
Where the Sea Breaks Its Back The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska Author:Corey Ford "Where the Sea Breaks Its Back" is the story of the remarkable life of Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1742), one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. It is also the account of Vitus Bering's tragic last voyage across the uncharted North Pacific to "agunalaksh", the original Aleut word ... more »for "the shores where the sea breaks its back." In the course of that journey, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the crew of the ill-fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration.
In the history of maritime discovery, few voyages can match the obstacles, hardships and success of Bering's Second Expedition in 1741, that initial crossing of the North Pacific. While "Where the Sea Breaks Its Back" tells the heroic and tragic story of that momentous expedition, the book's hero is not Vitus Bering, the commander who died at the moment before success, but Georg Wilhelm Steller, the brilliant German-born scientist, naturalist, botanist and physician who accompanied Bering.
Author Corey Ford has created an immensely moving and personal tribute to the memory of Steller.« less