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Klappentext A summary of nine hundred years of maritime exploration around northern and north-eastern Eurasia, published in 1819. Zusammenfassung James Burney was a Fellow of the Royal Society and experienced naval officer who served on Cook's second and third voyages to the South Seas. In this work! published in 1819! he summarises nine hundred years of European and Russian exploration of the coastline from Northern Europe to North-East Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Concerning the earliest knowledge obtained of the sea north of Europe and of Asia; 2. Voyages made by the English, and by the Hollanders, in search of a North-East Passage from the European seas to India; 3. Of the general extension of the Russian Empire; 4. Report of a large land in the Icy Sea; 5. Attempts from the European Sea to discover a North-East Passage by the Danes, by the Dutch, and by John Wood, an Englishman; 6. Invasion of Kamtschatka; 7. Of the voyage of Taras Staduchin from the Kolyma to the sea of Kamtschatka; 8. Expedition of the Russians against the Tschuktzki; 9. Invasion of the Kurili Islands; 10. The Russians build ships in the ports of the Eastern Sea; 11. Willegin and Amossow in the Icy Sea; 12. Voyage of Captain Vitus Bering from Kamtschatka to the North; 13. Plans and expeditions of Schestakow; 14. Plans formed at Petersburgh for the prosecution of Eastern Discovery; 15. Voyage of Spanberg and Walton to Japan; 16. Voyage of Commodore Bering and Captain Tschirikow to America; 17. Enterprising attempts of Shalauroff, a Russian merchant, to sail round the north-east of Asia; 18. Of the lands in the Icy Sea; 19. Captain James Cook on the north-west coast of America; 20. Captain Cook through Bering's Strait, and in the sea north of the Strait; 21. Sequel; 22. Expedition of Captain Joseph Billings into the Icy Sea; 23. Billings at the Aleutian Islands; 24. Journey of Captain Billings through the country of the Tschuktzki; Conclusion.
