Contents
Foreword: The Steller Legacy / Jonathan C. Slaght
Translators' Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Instructions for Georg Wilhelm Steller from February 18, 1739, from Yeniseysk / Johann Georg Gmelin and Gerhard Friedrich Müller
Part I: Description of Irkutsk and Its Surroundings
1. About Irkutsk and Its Surroundings
2. About Irkutsk Itself
3. About the Public Offices
4. About the Clergy
5. About the Chinese Trade and Chinese Trade Goods
6. About Customs and Lifestyle in Irkutsk
7. About Transbaikalia
8. Report from the Uda River
Part II: Travel Journal from Irkutsk to Kamchatka
9. From Irkutsk to Ust'Ilginskaya (3/4-13)
10. From Ust'Ilginskaya to Kirensk (3/14-5/1)
11. From Kirensk to Yakutsk (5/2-24)
12. In Yakutsk and Yarmanka (5/25-6/19)
13. From Yarmanka to the Amga River (6/20-7/2)
14. From the Amga to the Yuna River (7/3-21)
15. From the Yuna River to Yudoma Cross (7/22-8/8)
16. From Yudoma Cross to Okhotsk (8/9-13)
17. In Okhotsk (8/14-26)
18. Salmon Fishing and Preserving (8/27)
19. From Okhotsk to Bol'sheretsk (8/28-9/16)
Afterword
Appendix A: Georg Wilhelm Steller's Life 11-20 – '18
Appendix B: Schnurbuch Account Ledger
Appendix C: Letter to Johann Daniel Schumacher
Appendix D: Plants Named After Steller
Glossary of Foreign Words
Glossary of People
Bibliography
Index