Aims 'to draw together what earlier scholars, mostly Russian and Soviet, have uncovered and what interpretations and explanations they have advanced' concerning the voyage 'of a party of petty entrepreneurs' around the eastern tipof Asia in the summer of 1648, anticipating by 80 years the voyage of Vitus Bering. Of this earlier voyage Semen Dezhnev, an illiterate Siberian cossack, was the surviving leader. The author writes: 'Mere complication has not...been my intention. I have felt free to expand some of the arguments on ...
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Aims 'to draw together what earlier scholars, mostly Russian and Soviet, have uncovered and what interpretations and explanations they have advanced' concerning the voyage 'of a party of petty entrepreneurs' around the eastern tipof Asia in the summer of 1648, anticipating by 80 years the voyage of Vitus Bering. Of this earlier voyage Semen Dezhnev, an illiterate Siberian cossack, was the surviving leader. The author writes: 'Mere complication has not...been my intention. I have felt free to expand some of the arguments on controversial matters, to present my own conclusions in certain instances, and to take sides on disputed points or to suspend judgement...the final evaluation of the significance of the voyage is my own.'
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 1981 Edition, Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volume 159. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Blue cloth boards.
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Good in good dust jacket. First Edition. first edition book, light amount of wear on the dust jacket Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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0904180123. Hardcover; London; Hakluyt Society; 1999; 326 pp. Hakluyt Society second series, vol. 159 Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket; Second Series; 8.46 X 5.75 X 0.98 inches.
