BY
PETER LAURIDSEN,
Member of the Council of the Royal Danish Geographical Society,
Editor of Jens Munk's "Navigatio Septentrionalis."
Revised by the Author, and Translated from the Danish by
JULIUS E. OLSON,
Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Languages in the University of Wisconsin.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION BY
FREDERICK SCHWATKA,
Medallist of the Paris Geographical Society, and of the Imperial GeographicalSociety of Russia: Honorary Member of the Bremen Geographical Society,and the Swiss Geographical Society of Geneva; Corresponding Memberof the Italian Geographical Society, etc., etc.; Author of"Along Alaska's Great River," etc., etc.
CHICAGO:
S. C. GRIGGS & COMPANY,
1889.
COPYRIGHT, 1889,
BY S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.
PRESS OFKNIGHT & LEONARD CO.
CHICAGO.
| Lieut. Schwatka's Introduction | vii |
| Translator's Preface | xii |
| Author's Preface | xv |
| PART I. BERING'S FIRST EXPEDITION. | |
|---|---|
| Chapter I. | |
| Russia and England in the work of Arctic exploration.—Vitus Bering's rank as an explorer | 3 |
| Chapter II. | |
| Bering's nativity.—Norwegians and Danes in the service of Peter the Great.—Founding of the Russian navy | 6 |
| Chapter III. | |
| Plans for Bering's First Expedition.—Peter the Great's desire to know the extent of his empire.—The Northeast passage | 12 |
| Chapter IV. | |
| Bering's knowledge of Siberian geography.—Terrors of traveling in Siberia.—The expedition starts out.—The journey from St. Petersburg to the Pacific | 19[Pg iv] |
| Chapter V. | |
| The building of the Gabriel.—The discovery of Bering Strait | 29 |
| Chapter VI. | |
| The task assigned by Peter the Great accomplished.—History of the cartogra ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |