Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867 by Ryan Tucker Jones

Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867

Ryan Tucker Jones

296 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced

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In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russian...

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