# Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition - Hardcover

by **Stephen R. Bown** (Author)

**The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told**

The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history."

### Author Biography

**Stephen R. Bown** is author of _The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen_ and _White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic_, which won the Williams Mills Award for the best book on the Arctic in 2016. His award-winning books, including _Scurvy_ and _Madness, Betrayal, and the Lash_, have led to a reputation as Canada's Simon Winchester.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** November 07, 2017

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