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Discusses such areas as Nagasaki, Peking, Nerchinsk, Petropavlovsk, Alta California, Kealakekua Bay, Nootka Sound, Hokkaido, Sitka, Paris, Sakhalin Island, Astoria, California, Kauai, Washington City, St. Petersburg, Honolulu, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Canton, Oregon, Sonoma, Panama, Cape Horn, Edo, Aikun-on-the-Amur, San Francisco, Tokyo, Utah, British Columbia, Sacramento, Vladivostock, Otsu, Korea, Manila, Alaska, Port Arthur, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,...
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"In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean, establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting marine mammal furs to Europe and China. In the process they radically transformed...
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