Russian America: Statistical and ethnographic information

by Ferdinand von Wrangel

Translation of Statistische und ethnographische Nachrichten über die russischen Besitzungen an der Nordwestküste von Amerika. Map on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references and index.

204 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1980

About the author

Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (Russian: Фердина́нд Петро́вич Вра́нгель, Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel) was a Baltic German explorer and seaman in Russian service, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a founder of the Russian Geographic Society. He is best known as chief manager of the Russian-American Company, in fact governor of the Russian settlements in present day Alaska.