book chapter

Bering's successors, 1745-1780

Univ. of Washington Press • Seattle • Published In 1948 • Pages:

By: Pallas, Peter Simon, Masterson, James R. (James Raymond).

Abstract

An annotated English translation of the works of Pallas with an excellent discussion by the editors of the early literature on the Aleutian Islands. Pallas, who wrote in 1780, depended upon the reports of explorers and hunters for his information, and in addition to his own summary, he presents abstracts from these early reports. In processing the lengthy geographical discussions were omitted either because they were speculative or because the information has been covered in other sources. Material included in Coxe (see 3: Coxe) was not excerpted from this source.

HRAF PubDate

2007

Region

North America

Sub Region

Arctic and Subarctic

Document Type

book chapter

Evaluation

Creator Types

Historian

Natural Scientist

Physical Scientist

Traveler

Document Rating

4: Excellent Secondary Data

3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent

Analyst

Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956

Field Date

no date

Coverage Date

1774-1777

Coverage Place

Andreanof and Fox Islands, Alaska, United States

Notes

contributions of Peter Simon Pallas to the history of Russian exploration toward Alaska, by James R. Masterson and Helen Brower

This document consists of excerpts

Articles from Neue nordische Beyträge, v. 1-4, 1781-83, tr. and annotated by J. R. Masterson and Helen Brower

'Reprinted from Pacific Northwest quarterly, vol. 38, 1 and 2 [1947]'

LCCN

48009537

LCSH

Aleuts