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100			_aBurney, James
245		2	_aA chronological history of North-Eastern voyages of discovery: And of the early eastern navigations of the Russians/ _cJames Burney
260			_aCharleston: _bBibliolife, _c1819.
300			_aViii, 310 p. _c23 cm.
505			_aPreface 1. Concerning the earliest knowledge obtained of the sea north of Europe and of Asia 2. Voyages made by the English, and by the Hollanders, in search of a North-East Passage from the European seas to India 3. Of the general extension of the Russian Empire 4. Report of a large land in the Icy Sea 5. Attempts from the European Sea to discover a North-East Passage by the Danes, by the Dutch, and by John Wood, an Englishman 6. Invasion of Kamtschatka 7. Of the voyage of Taras Staduchin from the Kolyma to the sea of Kamtschatka 8. Expedition of the Russians against the Tschuktzki 9. Invasion of the Kurili Islands 10. The Russians build ships in the ports of the Eastern Sea 11. Willegin and Amossow in the Icy Sea 12. Voyage of Captain Vitus Bering from Kamtschatka to the North 13. Plans and expeditions of Schestakow 14. Plans formed at Petersburgh for the prosecution of Eastern Discovery 15. Voyage of Spanberg and Walton to Japan 16. Voyage of Commodore Bering and Captain Tschirikow to America 17. Enterprising attempts of Shalauroff, a Russian merchant, to sail round the north-east of Asia 18. Of the lands in the Icy Sea 19. Captain James Cook on the north-west coast of America 20. Captain Cook through Bering's Strait, and in the sea north of the Strait 21. Sequel 22. Expedition of Captain Joseph Billings into the Icy Sea 23. Billings at the Aleutian Islands 24. Journey of Captain Billings through the country of the Tschuktzki Conclusion.
650			_aNortheast Passage.
650			_aArctic regions -- Russian exploration. .
650			_aNorth America -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
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