The Danish historian Peter Lauridsen tells the life of Vitus Bering, the Dane in Russian service whom Peter the Great sent to find whether Asia and America were joined. He follows the building of the Gabriel and the first Kamchatka expedition, the vast Great Northern Expedition that followed, and Bering’s last voyage to the American coast and death on the island that bears his name.
A sober account of one of the great Arctic explorers, with an introduction by Frederick Schwatka. Download the free EPUB.