Steller s History of Kamchatka Collected Information Concerning the History of Kamchatka Its Peoples Their Manners Names Lifestyles and Various Customary Practices 1st Edition by Georg Steller ISBN 1889963496 978-1889963495

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ISBN 10: 1889963496 

ISBN 13: 978-1889963495

Author: Georg Steller

Everything was of interest to Georg Wilhelm Steller, who the Russian Academy of Sciences appointed as naturalist to Vitus Bering’s second Kamchatka expedition. Steller arrived in Kamchatka in 1740, sailed with Bering to discover Alaska in 1741, and composed his handwritten manuscript on Kamchatka in 1743 and 1744. That manuscript was finally published in German thirty years after his death, and this first-ever English translation of that German edition is most valuable for its descriptions of the natural and human worlds that Steller found in the mid-eighteenth century.

Steller’s extensive natural history includes special contributions to the study of fish, in which he described over thirty new species and two new genera, and to ornithology, which also includes the first descriptions of numerous species. His careful observations of Kamchatka’s Native peoples add to the small and invaluable collection of ethnographic and linguistic descriptions made during the initial acculturation process and the growth of a new economy based on the fur trade, which changed their lives forever. Steller’s observations of the economy of Kamchatka and the role of the Cossacks is refreshingly frank. He was the first scientist to suggest, based on direct observation, similarities between the ethnography and natural history of the Russian Far East and that of the newly discovered Alaska.

Steller’s breadth and depth in recording the natural and human world of eighteenth-century Alaska make this new translation an important reference for readers interested in all aspects of North Pacific and Russian American history.

Table of contents: 

1 About the Rivers
2 About Various Springs of Kamchatka
3 About the Mountains
4 About the Various Diverse Regions of Kamchatka
5 About the Weather on Kamchatka
6 About the Health of the Inhabitants as well as Their Diseases and Remedies
7 About the Minerals and Fossils of Kamchatka
8 About the Trees, Shrubs, and Plants on Kamchatka
9 About Marine Plants and Vegetation That the Ocean Around Kamchatka Washes Ashore, Their Usefulness and Application
10 About the Marine Mammals That Are Caught on Kamchatkan Shores, Their Usefulness and Utilization
11 About the Land Animals on Kamchatka
12 About the Fishes on Kamchatka
13 About Some Marine Animals That Are Eaten on Kamchatka
14 About the Birds of Kamchatka
15 About the Seabirds
16 About the Waterfowl
17 About the Land Birds
18 About the Insects and Related Creatures on Kamchatka
19 About the Russian Villages on Kamchatka
20 About the Itelmen Villages
21 About the First Occupation of Kamchatka
22 About the Condition of Kamchatka Before the Occupation
23 About the Origins of the Itelmen
24 About the Religion of the Itelmen
25 About the Itelmen’s Disposition, Likes and Dislikes, Virtues and Vices
26 About the Constitution, Stature and Physical Characteristics of the Itelmen
27 About the Itelmen’s Clothing of Both Sexes
28 About the Itelmen’s Work and Tools
29 About the Itelmen’s Diet, Dishes, and Table Manners
30 About the Itelmen’s Celebrations and Entertainment
31 About the Itelmen’s Marriage Customs
32 About the Itelmen’s Begetting and Raising Children
33 About Political Things and the Solving of Controversies
34 About the Itelmen’s Classification of Time
35 About the Medicines of the Itelmen
36 About Traveling on Kamchatka
37 About Imports, Exports, and Potential Trade on Kamchatka

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