Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Whymper is the accounts of travels to the Arctic America, at that time known as Russian America, in the middle of the 1800′. The book was published in 1868 and contains great descriptions of meetings with inuits, dramatic stories of survival, meetings with trappers and colorful eyewitness account of the stunning arctic nature. When the book was published it received a lot of attention since Alaska had just been acquired by the United States Government from Russia.
The aquisition was ridiculed and mocked in public. The critics believed the price was too high for “waste lands and worn-out colonies”. Not much was known about the 400.000 square miles, besides what Bering and Tschirikoft had reported from their expeditions.
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