Subject: Steller
Date: Nov 25 10:52:14 1998
From: "Kelly Cassidy" - lostriver at seanet.com


I wrote:

>A great book about Steller is "Where the Sea Breaks its Back" by Corey
Ford,
>published in 1966. He was on Virus Bering's voyage to Alaska in 1741.

about which Dick Johnson wrote:

>Obviously Ford found the Fountain of Youth on that voyage. Anyone who was
>old enough to take that trip in 1741 and still able to write about it in
>1966 has something a lot more important than the voyage itself to write
>about!

and Irene Wanner wrote [refereing to VIRUS Bering, who should have been
VITUS]:

>That trip was plagued with colds. :)

To which I can only reply:

There was an explorer named Steller,
Who, it's said, was an arrogant feller,
Ford told his story,
But the gainer was Corey,
Cause the Virus of Youth found the teller.

Kelly Cassidy