The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told

The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 11/07/2017
ISBN: 9780306825194
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2017
Booklist 11/01/2017 pg. 11
Library Journal 11/01/2017
Choice 05/01/2018