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Georg Wilhem Steller: The Pioneer of Alaskan Natural History
by Leonhard Stejneger
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0576291242
- ISBN 13
- 9780576291248
- Seller
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About This Item
Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1970. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0576291242. ISBN/EAN: 9780576291248. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3246. . 9780576291248 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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- Bookseller
- Polar Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3246
- Title
- Georg Wilhem Steller: The Pioneer of Alaskan Natural History
- Author
- Leonhard Stejneger
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0576291242
- ISBN 13
- 9780576291248
- Publisher
- Gregg International Publishers Limited
- Place of Publication
- (westmead, Farnborough, Hants., England)
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- BZDB349 bibliography, arctic, artic Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0576291242 EAN: 9780576291248 Leonhard Stejneger Georg Wilhem Steller: The Pioneer of Alaskan Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration;
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