Crossing Siberia: Vitus Bering signs on with Russia -- Never on land had so many gone so far -- Into the icy sea -- Dream of empire -- Set up to fail -- Letters home: Anna Bering in command -- Voyage to America: Steller Signs On with Bering -- Kamchatka to North America -- First landing: Kayak Island -- Scurvy -- Native Americans -- Cruel Waves -- Shipwreck and Survival: Decision to land: Bering Island -- Death camp -- Bering's death -- How Bering's Men Got Off the Island
Summary
"In the first biography of Bering written in more than a century, Orcutt Frost chronicles the life of this extraordinary explorer. Drawing on a wide range of new evidence - including personal letters and archaeological evidence derived from the recent discovery of Bering's grave site - the author reconstructs Bering's personality, his perilous voyages and his uneasy relationship with the naturalist Georg Steller."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index
Notes
Print version record
PEN Center USA West Literary Awards (nominated), 2004
