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Where lie the farthest limits of northern Asia? Peter the Great did not know, and he wanted to. So, in 1725, Czar Peter sent a Dane named Vitus Bering and 33 men to poke around in Kamchatka, and especially to find out whether a land bridge connected Asia and North...
In 1732 she dispatched a party which grew to an imposing 3,000 men, again under Bering's command, to explore the Arctic coast and the north rim of the Pacific, to reconnoiter the western verges of the New World-and, just incidentally, to develop the whole of Siberia...
Almost 200 years later, in 1938, the Leningrad State Library acquired the MS of a full report written by an eyewitness. This week, in a good translation by M. A. Michael, The American Expedition, by Sven Waxell, one of Bering's chief lieutenants, was published in the U.S.
Blue Faces. Waxell, born a Swede, joined the Russian navy in 1726 and the Bering expedition in 1733, bringing his wife and son along. It took the straggling army of human whatnot (adventurers, scientists, convict laborers, shipwrights, camp followers) almost five slogging years to cross the 4,000 miles of...
Among the fogbanks and williwaws of the Aleutians, Bering's flagship, the St. Peter, wandered for five months without true bearings. Food ran low. Scurvy struck. Bering and many of his crew lay helplessly rotting in their bunks. Waxell, hardly able to stand, took command. The ship was falling...