Exploring and Mapping Alaska: The Russian America Era, 1741–1867. By Alexey Postnikov and Marvin Falk

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Exploring and Mapping Alaska: The Russian America Era, 1741–1867 . Historical Translation Series. By Alexey Postnikov and Marvin Falk. Translated by Lydia Black. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2015. ix + 525 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, £52.00.) This book is an English translation and revision of Alexey Postnikov’s Russian America in Geographical Descriptions and Maps, 1741–1867 , first published in St. Petersburg in 2000. The eighteen-year effort to publish this book in English is a testament to both scholarly endurance and international collaboration. It is also a fitting memorial to two distinguished scholars from the University of Alaska Fairbanks—Richard A. Pierce and Lydia Black—who devoted their lives to educating the English-speaking world about Russian America. From 1972 until his death in 2004, Dick Pierce was a one-man publishing dynamo. As editor and publisher (as well as copyboy, typist, and mailroom clerk) of Limestone … Terrencemcole1{at}gmail.com