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Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867. By Ryan Tucker Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiv, 296 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. $55.00, hard bound.

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Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867. By Ryan Tucker Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiv, 296 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. $55.00, hard bound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nicholas Breyfogle*
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Ohio State University
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1 For a popular discussion of extinction and the shift in human understandings of it, see Kolbert, Elizabeth, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (New York, 2014)Google Scholar.

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3 Compare Delbourgo, James and Dew, Nicholas, eds., Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (Abingdon, 2008)Google Scholar.