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Vitus Bering: The Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen; Julius E. Olson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Vitus Bering (1681-1741) was a Danish-born Russian navigator. He enlisted in the Russian navy and fought during the Great Northern War (1700-21) against the Swedish Empire. In 1725 he received a commission from Peter the Great to discover whether there was a land bridge between Russia and America. He sailed through what would later be called the Bering Strait, but was unable to reach America on this first attempt. He succeeded on his next voyage, later named the Great Northern Expedition, and set about mapping significant sections of North American coastline. He also charted the Arctic coast of Siberia, 'discovered' Japan from the North and became the first European to explore Alaska. Published in English translation for the American market in 1889, this sympathetic biography by the historian and geographer Peter Lauridsen (1846-1923) had originally appeared in Danish in 1885. It includes extensive notes and an index

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Author

Peter Lauridsen; Julius E. Olson

Publisher

publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108041515

Category

nonfiction