Sailing Around the World and Across the Arctic Ocean

Fedor Petrovich Litke - one of the prominent geographers of XIX century, known for his research in the Arctic and the circumnavigation. Litke made a significant contribution not only to the development of the national geography, but also for a long time served as president of the Academy of Sciences, he was one of the founders of the Russian Geographical Society. The result of his voyages became the book "A four journey into the Arctic Ocean" and "Around the World on a military sloop" Senyavin ", included in this volume" Library of travel. "