CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS 



Remote Alaska & the Russian Far East 



Above the Arctic Circle 



July 20 -30, 1994 



The remote islands of the 

 Bering Sea lead like stepping 

 stones from Alaska to the vast 

 frontier of the Russian Arctic. 

 This summer, a team of Ameri- 

 can Museum and guest lecturers 

 will lead an exciting voyage of 

 exploration in this rarely-vis- 

 ited area of the world. 



Aboard the World Discov- 

 erer, we will follow comfort- 

 ably in the pathways of famed 

 18th- and 19th-century Arctic 

 explorers. We will cross the 

 Bering Strait, which long ago 

 formed the land bridge that pre- 

 cipitated the migration of Asians 

 to the Americas, visiting along 

 the way such extraordinary 

 places as the Arakamchechen 

 Archipelago. We will also cross 

 the Arctic Circle in search of 

 polar bears traveling on the drift- 

 ing pack ice. 



Our journey will allow us 

 to meet with people from both 

 continents who are historically 

 and ethnically related and enjoy 

 the spectacular Arctic land- 

 scapes. These nutrient-rich wa- 

 ters and remote rocky islands 

 support some of the largest colo- 

 nies of seabirds in the Western 

 Hemisphere, as well as marine 

 mammals, sea lions and seals. 

 Join us for the voyage of a Hfe- 

 time. 



American 

 Museum of 

 Natural 

 History 

 Discovery Cruises 



Central Park West at 79th St. 



New York, NY 10024-5192 



Toll-free (800) 462-8687 or 



(212) 769-5700 in NYS 



AUTHORS 



"Watching Steller's eagles wintering on 

 Kuril Lake in Russia is not IDce watching 

 bald eagles in the United States," says 

 Alexander Ladigin (page 26). "At Kuril 

 Lake, there are no roads, cars, or human 

 inhabitants for many miles around. It is 

 not possible to drive by the river in a car 



After observing modem hairless dogs 

 kept as pets and show dogs in Peru, Alana 

 Cordy-CoUins (page 34) committed the 

 gaffe of mistaking a dog in San Diego to 

 be of the same breed. The indignant owner 

 informed her that it was Mexican, not Pe- 

 ruvian. Intrigued by the similarity of the 

 two breeds, she has traced their possible 

 prehistoric connection. Cordy-Collins is a 

 professor of anthropology at the Univer- 

 sity of San Diego and curator of Latin 

 American archeology at the San Diego 

 Museum of Man. She has done archeolog- 

 ical fieldwork in Ecuador and Chile, as 

 well as Peru. For additional reading, she 

 recommends Atlas of Dog Breeds of the 

 World, by Bonnie Wilcox and Chris 

 Walkowicz (Neptune City: T F. H. Publi- 

 cations, 1989); "Axe-Monies and Their 

 Relatives," by Dorothy Hosier, Heather 

 Lechtman, and Olaf Holm, Studies in Pre- 

 Columbian Art and Archeology, no. 30 



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