Lieutenant Zagoskin's Travels in Russian Americ. Michael<|

Lieutenant Zagoskin's Travels in Russian America 1842-1844The First Ethnographic and Geographic Investigations in the Yukon and Kuskokwim Valleys of Alaska\nAuthor(s): Henry Michael\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487581626, 978-1487581626\nSynopsis\nThe expedition of Naval Lieutenant Lavrentiy Alekseyevich Zagoskin constitutes one of the most remarkable pages in the history of Russian exploration during the first half of the nineteenth century. It was the possibilities for the fur trade which gave the real impetus to this exploration of the interior of Alaska and to it we own a great deal for its encouragement of investigation which has benefited since the study of geography and anthropology. Lieutenant Zagoskin travelled into the depths of the Alaskan territory, and his reports were the earliest detailed accounts of the natural conditions of the country, and the distribution and life of the India.