While Champlain and the French pushed west across North America, another tide of adventurers came from the opposite direction, over Siberia and the Pacific. Laut tells their story, beginning with Vitus Bering, the Dane sent by Peter the Great, and moving on to the fur hunters, navigators and rivals who opened the Northwest Coast.
Lively popular history of the exploration of the North Pacific by a Canadian writer with a novelist’s eye. Download the free EPUB.