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The Russian discovery of America

Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681-1741) greatly expanded the Russian empire, pioneered the geography of the North Pacific Ocean, and laid the groundwork for Russian trade and settlement in the American West. In this title, Orcutt Frost chronicles the life of this extraordinary explorer

Print Book, English, 2004
Yale University Press : [distributor] John Wiley and Sons Ltd, New Haven, 2004