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Steaming to the North: The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886
Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear Alaska and Chukotka Siberia 1886
Author: Katherine C. Donahue, David C. Switzer
On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea—and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, the Bear patrolled and charted the waters of Alaska and Siberia, bringing medical care, saving lives,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781602232389
ISBN-10: 1602232385
Publication Date: 11/15/2014
Pages: 200
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Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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