The Journal of Midshipman Chaplin
A Record of Bering's First Kamchatka Expedition
Edited by Tatiana S. Fedorova
Peter Ulf Møller
Viktor G. Sedov
Carol L. Urness
(book + e-book)
In 1725 the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, signed orders for
Vitus Bering to set out on the First Kamchatka Expedition in order
to establish if As…