From Northeast Passage to Northern Sea Route
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2022-09-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004521841 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004521844 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Download or read book From Northeast Passage to Northern Sea Route written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first study of the entire history of the Northern Sea Route, from its earliest exploration to the twenty-first century. It includes the West-European search for a new waterway to the Orient (sixteenth to seventeenth century), the Russian Kamchatka expeditions (eighteenth century), and the navigation from Europe to the major rivers in north-west Siberia (late nineteenth to early twentieth century), as well as the Russian utilisation of the sea route in the Soviet epoch and later.