Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition by Stephen R. Bown

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

Stephen R. Bown

352 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science travel adventurous slow-paced

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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...

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adventurous 100%
informative 83%
dark 33%
inspiring 33%
reflective 33%
hopeful 16%
sad 16%
tense 16%

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slow 16%

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