Lieutenant Zagoskin's Travels in Russian America 1842-1844: The First Ethnographic and Geographic Investigations in the Yukon and Kuskokwim Valleys of - Paperback

by Henry N. Michael (Author)

The expedition of Naval Lieutenant Lavrentiy Alekseyevich Zagoskin constitutes one of the most remarkable pages in the history of Russian exploration during the first half of the nineteenth.This translation makes available an outstanding source in the history of early scientific investigations in the North.