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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America: to Which Are Added, the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce Between Russia and China |
| Reference | 904.C839 1787 |
| Library | California Historical Society |
| Date | 1787 |
| Publisher | Printed by J Nichols, for T Cadell |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Author / Creator | Coxe, William |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Exploration and Discovery; Trade and Commerce; Transport and Communication |
| Keywords | discovery, geography, history, commerce, Russians, voyage, study, expedition, empress, longitude, latitude, economy, sea otter, fur trade, vessel, wreck, ship, seafaring, indigenous peoples, massacre, attack, cossacks, hostility, fox, skins, settlement, export, language, Jew, Bucharan, Tartar, disease, death |
| Countries | Russia; China; USA; Mongolia |
| Places | Siberia; St Petersburg; Kamchatka; Aleutian Islands; Unalaska; Alaska; Volga River; Kyakhta; Altanbulag; Oryol; Lena River; Kodiak Archipelago |
| Ports | Sitka, Alaska; Okhotsk, Russia |
| Ships | Boris, Glebb, St Vlodimir, Gabriel, Peter and Paul, St Andrean, St Nicholas, Natalia, Zacharias, Elizabeth, Trinity, St Paul |
| People | Captain Cook; Catherine the Great; Vitus Bering; Aleksei Chirikov; Peter Kuzmich Krenitzin; Mikhail Levashev; Stepan Glotov; Ivan Korovin; Andreyan Tolstykh; Captain Clerke |
| Additional Information |
Supplement: a comparative view of the Russian discoveries with those made by Captains Cook and Clerke and a sketch of what remains to be ascertained by future navigators. Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the California Historical Society's North Baker Research Library catalogue. |
| Copyright | California Historical Society |
