Explorers of Alaska - George Vancouver, Vitus Bering, Joseph Billings, Alessandro Malaspina, Malaspina Expedition, Robert Gray (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: George Vancouver, Vitus Bering, Joseph Billings, Alessandro Malaspina, Malaspina Expedition, Robert Gray, Jose Maria Narvaez, James Colnett, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, George Baker Leavitt, Sr., Edward Henry Harriman, William Healey Dall, Francisco de Eliza, Juan Carrasco, George Dixon, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Frederick Schwatka, Salvador Fidalgo, Bruno de Heceta, James Johnstone, Robert Kennicott, Jacinto Caamano, Otto von Kotzebue, Evstratii Delarov, Ivan Petrof, Henry Tureman Allen, Jose Cardero, Frederick Whymper, Francisco Antonio Mourelle, Ejnar Mikkelsen, Gavril Sarychev, Adolf Etolin, Gavriil Pribylov, Grigory Shelikhov, Mikhail Tebenkov, Gerasim Izmailov, Gonzalo Lopez de Haro, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, Ivan Vasilyev, Ludwig von Hagemeister, Mikhail Levashev, Pyotr Krenitsyn, Aleksei Chirikov, Jack McQuesten, Mikhail Gvozdev, Ivan Fyodorov. Excerpt: Alessandro Malaspina (November 5, 1754 - April 9, 1810) was an Italian nobleman who spent most of his life as a Spanish naval officer and explorer. Under a Spanish royal commission, he undertook a voyage around the world from 1786 to 1788, then, from 1789 to 1794, a scientific expedition throughout the Pacific Ocean, exploring and mapping much of the west coast of the Americas from Cape Horn to the Gulf of Alaska, crossing to Guam and the Philippines, and stopping in New Zealand, Australia, and Tonga. Malaspina was christened "Alessandro." He signed his letters in Spanish "Alexandro," which is usually modernized to "Alejandro" by Spanish scholars. Malaspina was born in Mulazzo, a small principality ruled by his family. Today part of Tuscany, it was then part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, a fiefdom of the Holy Roman Empire. Alessandro's parents were the Marquis Carlo Morello and Caterina Meli Lupi di Soragna. During 1762-1765, his family lived in P...