Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Behring's Straits: In Search of a North-East Passage, Undertaken in the Yea, (Paperback)

Title: Voyage of discovery in the South Sea, and to Behring's Straits: in search of a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the ship Rurick.Author: Otto von KotzebuePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01889800CollectionID: CTRG96-B832PublicationDate: 18210101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: According to the verso of the t.p. of pt. 1, pt. 2 "will contain the conclusion of Capt. Kotzebue's voyage, together with the ... narrative of M. Chamisso, the naturalist, and a translation of some of the valuable memoirs with which the German original is terminated." An abridgment of the author's larger work originally published in Russian under title: Puteshestvie v eIiUzhnyi okean i v Beringov proliv. Detached from New voyages and travels, edited by Sir Richard Phillips, v. 6.Collation: 2 pts. (220 p.): ill., maps; 23 cm