Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill-fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among...

Ctft For JIM HUDELSON Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Crcnvell-Collier Publishing Company for permission to reprint certain sections of this book, which first appeared in Colliers Magazine. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I The Invasion That Failed i II Our Unknown Front 31 III Mission Over Kiska 44 IV Three Stories 55 V Landbridge 88 VI Mummies, Volcanoes, Sea-Otters 102 VII They Came to Attu 1 22 VIII We Even Had a Tree ... 130 IX A Postscript 137 Cut . Jke MtVadion, Jkai halted History can turn on a very small hinge. The history of Alaska, and perhaps the history of the American...

Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill-fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among this country's...