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Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition

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Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition
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In the year marking the 300th anniversary of Vitus Bering's First Kamchatka Expedition, which marked the beginning of a geographic undertaking of unprecedented scale, readers are once again discovering a rare historical record: the diaries of Captain Sven Vaksel, a member of the Second Kamchatka (Great Northern) Expedition. After Bering's death on the Commander Islands in 1741, it was Vaksel who led the crew and returned the surviving sailors home, thus completing the task conceived by Peter the Great—exploring, mapping, and describing the empire's eastern borders. His diaries are both a vivid eyewitness account and a document of great scholarly value. The book, out of print since 1940, is now back in print.
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